Review

. 2022 Jun;65(6):1091-1122.

doi: 10.1007/s11427-021-2075-x. Epub 2022 May 16.

Sex determination mechanisms and sex control approaches in aquaculture animals

Xi-Yin Li^#¹, Jie Mei^#², Chu-Tian Ge³, Xiao-Li Liu⁴, Jian-Fang Gui⁵

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China.
² College of Fisheries, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
³ College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, 315100, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application & Cultivation of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China. jfgui@ihb.ac.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 35583710
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-021-2075-x

Review

Sex determination mechanisms and sex control approaches in aquaculture animals

Xi-Yin Li et al. Sci China Life Sci. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun;65(6):1091-1122.

doi: 10.1007/s11427-021-2075-x. Epub 2022 May 16.

Authors

Xi-Yin Li^#¹, Jie Mei^#², Chu-Tian Ge³, Xiao-Li Liu⁴, Jian-Fang Gui⁵

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China.
² College of Fisheries, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
³ College of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo, 315100, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application & Cultivation of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, 510380, China.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China. jfgui@ihb.ac.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 35583710
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-021-2075-x

Abstract

Aquaculture is one of the most efficient modes of animal protein production and plays an important role in global food security. Aquaculture animals exhibit extraordinarily diverse sexual phenotypes and underlying mechanisms, providing an ideal system to perform sex determination research, one of the important areas in life science. Moreover, sex is also one of the most valuable traits because sexual dimorphism in growth, size, and other economic characteristics commonly exist in aquaculture animals. Here, we synthesize current knowledge of sex determination mechanisms, sex chromosome evolution, reproduction strategies, and sexual dimorphism, and also review several approaches for sex control in aquaculture animals, including artificial gynogenesis, application of sex-specific or sex chromosome-linked markers, artificial sex reversal, as well as gene editing. We anticipate that better understanding of sex determination mechanisms and innovation of sex control approaches will facilitate sustainable development of aquaculture.

Keywords: reproduction strategy; sex change; sex chromosome; sex control approach; sex determination; sex reversal; sexual dimorphism.

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