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Content: Evolution & Development 5–6/2016
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
evolution and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.651
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1525-142X
pISSN - 1520-541X
DOI - 10.1111/ede.12209
Subject(s) - biology , goby , juvenile , sex organ , sexual differentiation , fish <actinopterygii> , zoology , androgen , evolutionary biology , ecology , fishery , genetics , endocrinology , gene , hormone
Cover image: Photograph of a male, juvenile, and female blue‐banded goby (Lythrypnus dali), a highly social hermaphroditic fish. Gobies utilize a highly conserved androgen pathway to sexually differentiate the genitalia early in life. This pathway is recaptured during adult sex change to alter genital morphology