Fish With Temperature-dependent Sex Determination: How Common Are They?
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 22:21
in Biology & Nature
In vertebrates with separate sexes, sex determination can be genotypic or temperature-dependent (TSD). TSD is very common in reptiles, where the ambient temperature during sensitive periods of early development irreversibly determines whether an individual will be male or female. But just how common is this phenomenon in fish?