Discordance for genotypic sex in phenotypic female Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is related to a reduced sdY copy number

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Brown, Morgan S., Evans, Brad S., Afonso, Luis O. B.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
• Subjects: Article; The ''Y''; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7296011/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32541863; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66406-x

The master sex determinant in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), sexually dimorphic on the Y chromosome (sdY), is strongly but not perfectly associated with male phenotype in several other species from the family Salmonidae. Currently, the cause and implications of discordance for sdY-predicted ge...