Sex control in fish: approaches, challenges and opportunities for aquaculture

AM Budd, QQ Banh, JA Domingos… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2015 - mdpi.com
At present, aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of animal food production and holds
great potential as a sustainable solution for world food security. The ability to control sex is …

Genetic architecture of sex determination in fish: applications to sex ratio control in aquaculture

P Martínez, AM Viñas, L Sánchez, N Díaz… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Controlling the sex ratio is essential in finfish farming. A balanced sex ratio is usually good
for broodstock management, since it enables to develop appropriate breeding schemes …

Amazon floodplain fish communities: habitat connectivity and conservation in a rapidly deteriorating environment

LE Hurd, RGC Sousa, FK Siqueira-Souza… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Amazon River Basin contains the world's highest fish species diversity, with a
hydrologic cycle that creates a patchy distribution of floodplain lakes at low water and affords …

Chromosomal distribution and evolution of repetitive DNAs in fish.

MB Cioffi, LA Bertollo - Genome dynamics, 2012 - europepmc.org
Fish exhibit the greatest diversity of all vertebrates, making this group extremely attractive for
the study of a number of evolutionary questions. Fish genomes have intrinsic characteristics …

Biotechnologies for the management of genetic resources for food and agriculture

P Lidder, A Sonnino - Advances in genetics, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years, the land area under agriculture has declined as also has the rate of growth
in agricultural productivity while the demand for food continues to escalate. The world …

Propidium iodide for making heterochromatin more evident in the C-banding technique

RL Lui, DR Blanco, O Moreira-Filho… - Biotechnic & …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The detection of regions of heterochromatin has been the subject of intense investigation.
We investigated an adaptation of the commonly used technique by replacing the …

Satellitome analysis illuminates the evolution of ZW sex chromosomes of Triportheidae fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes)

R Kretschmer, CAG Goes, LAC Bertollo, T Ezaz… - Chromosoma, 2022 - Springer
Satellites are an abundant source of repetitive DNAs that play an essential role in the
chromosomal organization and are tightly linked with the evolution of sex chromosomes …

Delimiting the Origin of a B Chromosome by FISH Map**, Chromosome Painting and DNA Sequence Analysis in Astyanax paranae (Teleostei, Characiformes)

DMZA Silva, JC Pansonato-Alves, R Utsunomia… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Supernumerary (B) chromosomes have been shown to contain a wide variety of repetitive
sequences. For this reason, fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a useful tool for …

Mitigation of haemato-genotoxic and stress response effects in Cyprinus carpio via silymarin dietary supplementation following deltamethrin exposure

R **dal, R Sharma, P Kaur, S Kaur, CR Multisanti… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The study examined the potential of Silymarin, a blend of bioactive flavonolignans extracted
from the milk thistle Silybum marianum, to mitigate Deltamethrin-induced toxicity in the blood …

A PCR-based method for genetic sex identification and evidence of the XX/XY sex determination system in largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides L.)

J Du, J Zhou, S Li, J Shao, P Jiang, C Dong, J Bai - Aquaculture, 2021 - Elsevier
Sex dimorphism of economic traits such as growth rate and body size have potential
breeding value in aquaculture. Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides L.) is an important …