Stress and sex change in New Zealand spotty wrasse (Notolabrus celidotus)

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Stress and sex change in New Zealand spotty wrasse (Notolabrus celidotus)

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Sex is fixed from birth in most organisms, where individuals develop as either female or male and retain their sex through life. Traditionally, sex has been considered to be determined by genetic elements or by environmental factors. However, we now know numerous examples of plant and animal species that challenge this false dichotomy and where sexual fate is influenced by both strategies. One of the most fascinating examples of sexual plasticity is found in sequentially hermaphroditic fishes...

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Doctoral

Date created

2020

Creator

Goikoetxea Perez de Mendiola, Alexander

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/9946

Related subjects

sex / cortisol / stress / fish / hermaphroditism / tissue culture / sex change / New Zealand spotty wrasse / head kidney / sexual plasticity / sex reversal / sex steroids

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