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Title: | Polygenic sex determination system in zebrafish | Authors: | Siegfried, Kellee R. Liew, Woei Chang Bartfai, Richard Lim, Zijie Sreenivasan, Rajini Orban, Laszlo |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Source: | Liew, W. C., Bartfai, R., Lim, Z., Sreenivasan, R., Siegfried, K. R., & Orban, L. (2012). Polygenic sex determination system in zebrafish. PLoS ONE, 7(4). | Series/Report no.: | PLoS ONE | Abstract: | Despite the popularity of zebrafish as a research model, its sex determination (SD) mechanism is still unknown. Most cytogenetic studies failed to find dimorphic sex chromosomes and no primary sex determining switch has been identified even though the assembly of zebrafish genome sequence is near to completion and a high resolution genetic map is available. Recent publications suggest that environmental factors within the natural range have minimal impact on sex ratios of zebrafish populations. The primary aim of this study is to find out more about how sex is determined in zebrafish. Methodology/Principal Findings: Using classical breeding experiments, we found that sex ratios across families were wide ranging (4.8% to 97.3% males). On the other hand, repeated single pair crossings produced broods of very similar sex ratios, indicating that parental genotypes have a role in the sex ratio of the offspring. Variation among family sex ratios was reduced after selection for breeding pairs with predominantly male or female offspring, another indication that zebrafish sex is regulated genetically. Further examinations by a PCR-based “blind assay" and array comparative genomic hybridization both failed to find universal sex-linked differences between the male and female genomes. Together with the ability to increase the sex bias of lines by selective breeding, these data suggest that zebrafish is unlikely to utilize a chromosomal sex determination (CSD) system. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95214 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9199 |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0034397 | Schools: | School of Biological Sciences | Rights: | © 2012 The Authors. | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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