Journal
GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 283-289Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2010.06.005
Keywords
Gsdf; Dmy; Sexual differentiation; Estradiol-17 beta; Sex reversal; Medaka; TGF-beta superfamily; Cytokines
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan
- Ministry of the Environment
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In the teleost fish, medaka (Ozyzias latipes), the sex is genetically determined at the time of fertilization. The males are heterogametic with XY chromosome composition, while females are of XX chromosome composition. The male sexual differentiation is initiated in XY embryos of medaka by the sex-determining gene Dmy. In this study, we have cloned the gonadal soma derived factor (Gsdf) from medaka and characterized its expression pattern during the initiation of morphological testicular differentiation. By real-time PCR, an XY-specific up-regulation was detected in the expression levels of Gsdf in the whole embryos of medaka at 6 days post fertilization (dpf), coincident with the initiation of testicular differentiation in the XY gonads. Whole mount and section in situ hybridizations reaffirmed that Gsdf was expressed exclusively in primordial gonads of only the genetic males at 6 dpf. Conversely, the expression of Gsdf was found to be very weak in the XX gonads during embryogenesis. Importantly, Gsdf and Dmy were found to be co-localized in the same somatic cells in the XY gonads. When the XY embryos were treated with estradiol-17 beta, in order to reverse their phenotypic sex, a decline was observed in the expression of Gsdf in these embryos by real-time PCR. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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