RRC ID 54518
著者 Hayasaka O, Takeuchi Y, Shiozaki K, Anraku K, Kotani T.
タイトル Green light irradiation during sex differentiation induces female-to-male sex reversal in the medaka Oryzias latipes.
ジャーナル Sci Rep
Abstract This study investigated whether irradiation of a specific light wavelength could affect the sex differentiation of fish. We first found that the photoreceptor genes responsible for receiving red, green, and ultraviolet light were expressed in the eyes of medaka during the sex differentiation period. Second, we revealed that testes developed in 15.9% of genotypic females reared under green light irradiation. These female-to-male sex-reversed fish (i.e. neo-males) showed male-specific secondary sexual characteristics and produced motile sperm. Finally, progeny tests using the sperm of neo-males (XX) and eggs of normal females (XX) revealed that all F1 offspring were female, indicating for the first time in animals that irradiation with light of a specific wavelength can trigger sex reversal.
巻・号 9(1)
ページ 2383
公開日 2019-2-20
DOI 10.1038/s41598-019-38908-w
PII 10.1038/s41598-019-38908-w
PMID 30787482
PMC PMC6382872
MeSH Animals Female Hermaphroditic Organisms / physiology* Light Male Oryzias Sex Determination Processes* Sex Differentiation* Testis / physiology
IF 3.998
引用数 3
リソース情報
メダカ HdrR-II1 (IB178)