青鳉属
生物
性反转
性别分化
新陈代谢
饥饿
表观遗传学
内分泌学
脂质代谢
内科学
遗传学
基因
医学
作者
Yuta Sakae,Minoru Tanaka
出处
期刊:Sexual Development
[S. Karger AG]
日期:2021-01-01
卷期号:15 (1-3): 168-178
被引量:7
摘要
Animals determine their sex genetically (GSD: genetic sex determination) and/or environmentally (ESD: environmental sex determination). Medaka (Oryzias latipes) employ a XX/XY GSD system, however, they display female-to-male sex reversal in response to various environmental changes such as temperature, hypoxia, and green light. Interestingly, we found that 5 days of starvation during sex differentiation caused female-to-male sex reversal. In this situation, the metabolism of pantothenate and fatty acid synthesis plays an important role in sex reversal. Metabolism is associated with other biological factors such as germ cells, HPG axis, lipids, and epigenetics, and supplys substances and acts as signal transducers. In this review, we discuss the importance of metabolism during sex differentiation and how metabolism contributes to sex differentiation.
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