Spectrum of Sex

The Molecular Bases that Induce Various Sexual Phenotypes

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

The environment surrounding organisms, such as symbiosis and metabolism, act on the sex as critical factors, generating the sex spectrum. Determination and development of the two sexes have been a topic of great interest and a long-standing issue in biology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:421 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:233
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811953613

Utforska kategorier

Cellbiologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Minoru Tanaka has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan since 2016. His research interests include reproduction, especially the mechanisms of sex determination and gametogenesis. Makoto Tachibana has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan since 2018. His research interests include epigenetics, especially the epigenetic regulation of mammalian sex determination.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Spectrum of sex in a horn of the Japanese rhinoceros beetle.- Chapter 2. Sexual differentiation in dragonflies and damselflies.- Chapter 3. Dimorphic female-limited Batesian mimicry in two Papilio butterflies.- Chapter 4. Spectrum of sex chromosomes in mammals.- Chapter 5. The evolutionary aspects of the mammalian sex-determining gene SRY.- Chapter 6. Revisiting the role of steroid hormones in gonadal fate determination.- Chapter 7. Sex steroid regulation of male- and female-typical mating behaviors in teleost fish.- Chapter 8. Comparative Perspectives on the Function of Oxytocin in Fish and Mammals.- Chapter 9. Orchestration of the synthesis of sex hormones and their roles in establishing sex differences in mammals.- Chapter 10. The role of sex spectrum differences in reproductive strategies and the endocrine mechanisms underlying it.- Chapter 11. Symbiont-induced sexual and reproductive manipulation in insects.- Chapter 12. The mechanism for establishing the binarysex with environmental signals in the crustacean Daphnia magna.- Chapter 13. Starvation is a new component of sex reversal in medaka (Oryzias latipes)—significance of metabolism in sex regulation.