Germ cells in the teleost fish medaka have an inherent feminizing effect

Germ cells give rise to eggs or sperm. However, recent analyses in medaka (Oryzias latipes) showed that germ cells are also important for feminization of gonads, although this novel role of germ cells has not been characterized in detail. Here, we show that the feminizing effect is inherent to germ...

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Published in:PLoS Genet
Main Authors: Nishimura, Toshiya, Yamada, Kazuki, Fujimori, Chika, Kikuchi, Mariko, Kawasaki, Toshihiro, Siegfried, Kellee R., Sakai, Noriyoshi, Tanaka, Minoru
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5875746/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29596424
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007259
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