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SUBMITTER: Rafati N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7533707 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200916 39
The mechanisms underlying sex determination are astonishingly plastic. Particularly the triggers for the molecular machinery, which recalls either the male or female developmental program, are highly variable and have evolved independently and repeatedly. Fish show a huge variety of sex determination systems, including both genetic and environmental triggers. The advent of sex chromosomes is assumed to stabilize genetic sex determination. However, because sex chromosomes are notoriously cluttere ...[more]