ArticleNature communications2025
The master male sex determinant Gdf6Y of the turquoise killifish arose through allelic neofunctionalization.
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- A lifespan atlas of the killifish testis defines a pronounced mid-age remodeling shift during testicular aging.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Transcriptome Analysis of Different Stages in the Early Ovarian Development of the Greater Amberjack (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Whole-genome Resequencing Reveals the Sex Determination System and Develops a Sex-specific Marker in Fat Greenling (Hexagrammos otakii).Marine biotechnology (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Deciphering the gonadal cell atlas of Monopterus albus and cell fate during sex reversal based on single-cell RNA sequencing.Stem cell research & therapy · 2025Article
- Multiple Origins of Sex Chromosomes in Nothobranchius Killifishes.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- The master male sex determinant Gdf6Y of the turquoise killifish arose through allelic neofunctionalization.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Although sex determination is a fundamental process in vertebrate development, it is very plastic. Diverse genes became major sex determinants in teleost fishes. Deciphering how individual sex-determining genes orchestrate sex determination can reveal new actors in sexual development. Here, we demonstrate that the Y-chromosomal copy of the TGF-β family member gdf6 (gdf6Y) in Nothobranchius furzeri, an emerging model organism in aging research, gained the function of the male sex determinant through allelic diversification while retaining the skeletal developmental function shared with the X-chromosomal gdf6 allele (gdf6X). Concerning sex determination, gdf6Y is expressed by somatic supporting cells of the developing testes. There it induces the male sex in a germ cell-independent manner in contrast to sex determination in zebrafish and the medaka. Looking for downstream effectors of Gdf6Y, we identified besides TGF-β signaling modulators, especially the inhibitor of DNA binding genes id1/2/3, the mRNA decay activator zfp36l2 as a new GDF6 signaling target.
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