Testicular Transcriptome of Males and Pseudo-Males Provides Important New Insight into Sex Reversal of Rana dybowskii.

ABSTRACT: Rana dybowskii (R. dybowskii) is an ecological species found in China, Japan, Korea, and Russia. Like most amphibians, R. dybowskii lacks heterotypic sex chromosomes, limiting the in-depth study of sex determination and sex reversal mechanisms. Previous studies have shown that certain environmental factors can modify R. dybowskii genotypic females into phenotypic males, but the mechanism is still unknown. Considering the difficulties in identifying and collecting sex reversal gonads at different stages of differentiation under natural conditions, testes from sexually mature wild adult R. dybowskii were taken in this study, and the genotypic sex of individuals and sex reversal were identified by two male-linked genetic markers reported in our most recent f

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9598223 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature