Sexual dimorphism in the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus metropolitanus transcriptome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In gonochoristic animals, the sex determination pathway induces different morphological and behavioral features that can be observed between sexes, a condition known as sexual dimorphism. While many components of this sex differentiation cascade show high levels of diversity, factors such as the Doublesex-Mab-3-Related Transcription factor (DMRT) are widely conserved across animal taxa. Species of the phylum Tardigrada exhibit remarkable diversity in morphology and behavior between sexes, suggesting a pathway regulating this dimorphism. Despite the wealth of genomic and zoological knowledge accumulated in recent studies, the sexual differences in tardigrades genomes have not been identified. In the present study, we focused on the gonochoristic species Paramacrobiotus me

SUBMITTER: Sugiura K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11191345 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature