Title |
Gonad transcriptome analysis of pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera: identification of potential sex differentiation and sex determining genes
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, June 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-491 |
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Authors |
Vaihiti Teaniniuraitemoana, Arnaud Huvet, Peva Levy, Christophe Klopp, Emeline Lhuillier, Nabila Gaertner-Mazouni, Yannick Gueguen, Gilles Le Moullac |
Abstract |
Black pearl farming is based on culture of the blacklip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera (Mollusca, lophotrochozoa), a protandrous hermaphrodite species. At first maturation, all individuals are males. The female sex appears progressively from two years old, which represents a limitation for broodstock conditioning for aquaculture production. In marine mollusks displaying hermaphroditic features, data on sexual determinism and differentiation, including the molecular sex determining cascade, are scarce. To increase genomic resources and identify the molecular mechanisms whereby gene expression may act in the sexual dimorphism of P. margaritifera, we performed gonad transcriptome analysis. |
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