Deep sexual dimorphism in adult medaka fish liver highlighted by multi-omic approach.

ABSTRACT: Sexual dimorphism describes the features that discriminate between the two sexes at various biological levels. Especially, during the reproductive phase, the liver is one of the most sexually dimorphic organs, because of different metabolic demands between the two sexes. The liver is a key organ that plays fundamental roles in various physiological processes, including digestion, energetic metabolism, xenobiotic detoxification, biosynthesis of serum proteins, and also in endocrine or immune response. The sex-dimorphism of the liver is particularly obvious in oviparous animals, as the female liver is the main organ for the synthesis of oocyte constituents. In this work, we are interested in identifying molecular sexual dimorphism in the liver of adult medaka fish and their sex-variation in

SUBMITTER: Qiao Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5000296 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature