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ArticleScientific reports2019

Production of WW males lacking the masculine Z chromosome and mining the Macrobrachium rosenbergii genome for sex-chromosomes.

Tom Levy, Ohad Rosen, Rivka Manor, Shahar Dotan, Dudu Azulay, Anna Abramov, Menachem Y Sklarz, Vered Chalifa-Caspi, Kobi Baruch, Assaf Shechter and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tom LevyDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva, 8410501, Israel.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1484-0310
Ohad RosenEnzootic HK, Ltd., Unit 1109, 11/F, Kowloon Centre, 33 Ashley Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Rivka ManorDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva, 8410501, Israel.
Shahar DotanEnzootic HK, Ltd., Unit 1109, 11/F, Kowloon Centre, 33 Ashley Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Dudu AzulayEnzootic HK, Ltd., Unit 1109, 11/F, Kowloon Centre, 33 Ashley Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Anna AbramovEnzootic HK, Ltd., Unit 1109, 11/F, Kowloon Centre, 33 Ashley Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Menachem Y SklarzThe National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva, 8410501, Israel.
Vered Chalifa-CaspiThe National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva, 8410501, Israel.
Kobi BaruchNRGene Ltd., Ness-Ziona, 7503649, Israel.
Assaf ShechterEnzootic HK, Ltd., Unit 1109, 11/F, Kowloon Centre, 33 Ashley Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Amir SagiDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva, 8410501, Israel. sagia@bgu.ac.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4229-1059
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cultivation of monosex populations is common in animal husbandry. However, preselecting the desired gender remains a major biotechnological and ethical challenge. To achieve an efficient biotechnology for all-female aquaculture in the economically important prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), we achieved - for the first time - WW males using androgenic gland cells transplantation which caused full sex-reversal of WW females to functional males. Crossing the WW males with WW females yielded all-female progeny lacking the Z chromosome. We now have the ability to manipulate - by non-genomic means - all possible genotype combinations (ZZ, WZ and WW) to retain either male or female phenotypes and hence to produce monosex populations of either gender. This calls for a study of the genomic basis underlying this striking sexual plasticity, questioning the content of the W and Z chromosomes. Here, we report on the sequencing of a high-quality genome exhibiting distinguishable paternal and maternal sequences. This assembly covers ~ 87.5% of the genome and yielded a remarkable N50 value of ~ 20 × 10

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Sex ChromosomesAnimalsFemaleGenomeGenotypeLarvaMalePalaemonidaePhenotypeSex Determination AnalysisSex Differentiation

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