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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep02862
Keywords
OOGENESIS; STEROID HORMONES; DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency (SORST Program)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan [24370028, 23248034]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23248034, 11J03821] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The sexual plasticity of the gonads is not retained after the completion of sex differentiation in vertebrates, except in some hermaphroditic species. Here, we report that the depletion of estradiol-17 beta (E-2) by aromatase inhibitors (AI) for up to six months resulted in a functional female-to-male sex reversal in sexually-mature adults of two gonochoristic fish species, Nile tilapia and medaka. The sex-reversed fish showed a typical male pattern of E-2 and androgen levels, secondary sexual characteristics, and male-like sex behavior, producing fertile sperm. Conversely, co-treatment of E-2 inhibited AI-induced sex reversal. In situ hybridization of medaka gonads during AI-induced sex reversal indicated that cysts on the dorsal side of the adult ovaries are the origin of germ cells and Sertoli cells in the newly formed testicular tissue. Gonochoristic fish maintain their sexual plasticity until adulthood and E-2 plays a critical role in maintaining the female phenotype.
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