Y-specific amh allele, amhy, is the master sex-determining gene in Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus.

ABSTRACT: Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) is an important marine fish species of both fisheries and aquaculture in Northeast Asia. The commercial interest for all-female progenies due to several sex-related traits has prompted basic research on the mechanisms of sex determination in this species. By conducting a linkage analysis of the sex-determining locus, we initially identified 12 microsatellite markers linked to sex in 11 scaffolds, whose localization was restricted to a specific region of linkage group 9. Sequence analysis of this region identified 181 genes based on the UniProt database annotations. Among them, the amh gene was considered a potential candidate for sex determination because this gene is known to have taken over the role of sex determination in many tel

SUBMITTER: Hattori RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9523440 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature