Genetic Sex Differentiation in Fish

ISBN-13: 9781578087990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 236 str.

T. J. Pandian

Opis

A comprehensive elucidation of sex differentiation gonochoric and hermaphroditic fishes, this book examines sex chromosomes and sex determining genes, through sex differentiation genes and steroid receptor genes and to stem cells and germ cells.

Spis treści

Introduction. Sex Determination. Hermaphroditism. Patterns of Sex Differentiation. Impact of New Techniques. Differentiation in Gonochores. Sex Chromosomes. Sex Determining Genes. Sex Differentiation Genes. Sex Steroid Receptor Genes. Gonadal Differentiation. Model Fshes. Genetic Cascades. Gonadal Ducts. Puberty and Maturation. Acrosomeless Sperm and Micropylar Eggs. Secondary Sex Characters. Morphotypes and Differentiation. Reproductive Senescence. Stem Cells and Germ Cells. Differentiation in Hermaphrodites. Patterns of Hermaphroditism. Simultaneous Hermaphrodites. Sex Changing Hermaphrodites. Structural and Temporal Costs. Sex Chromosomes and Genes. Sex Differentiation Genes. Gonadal Differentiation. Morphotypes and Differentiation.
Strelity and Mutants. Gonadectomy. Abnormals and Steriles. Mutants.

O autorze

Pandian\, T. J.