Identification of sex determination locus in sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus using genome-wide association study

Abstract Background Sex determination mechanisms are complicated and diverse across taxonomic categories. Sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus is a benthic echinoderm, which is the closest group of invertebrates to chordate, and important economic and ecologically aquaculture species in China. A. jap...

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Main Authors: Yixin Wang, Yujia Yang, Yulong Li, Muyan Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-05-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-08632-3