A trans-species missense SNP in Amhr2 is associated with sex determination in the tiger pufferfish, Takifugu rubripes (fugu).

Heterogametic sex chromosomes have evolved independently in various lineages of vertebrates. Such sex chromosome pairs often contain nonrecombining regions, with one of the chromosomes harboring a master sex-determining (SD) gene. It is hypothesized that these sex chromosomes evolved from a pair of...

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Main Authors: Takashi Kamiya, Wataru Kai, Satoshi Tasumi, Ayumi Oka, Takayoshi Matsunaga, Naoki Mizuno, Masashi Fujita, Hiroaki Suetake, Shigenori Suzuki, Sho Hosoya, Sumanty Tohari, Sydney Brenner, Toshiaki Miyadai, Byrappa Venkatesh, Yuzuru Suzuki, Kiyoshi Kikuchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3395601?pdf=render