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Gonadal differentiation and temperature effects on sex determination in the freshwater pike silverside Chirostoma estor Jordan 1880

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The gonadal description of the freshwater atherinopsid pike silverside Chirostoma estor suggests that the gonads differentiate as ovaries or testes by 8 weeks after hatching when raised at 21 °C. Thermal treatments at 14 °C, 21 °C and 29 °C applied from fertilisation, clearly affected phenotypic sex ratios, suggesting that the thermolabile window of sex determination occurred early in development. In this study, exposure to the highest temperature led to male-biased sex ratios in this species. However, the effects of the lower and medium temperatures on the sex ratios were less clear, suggesting the presence of a mixture of genotypic and temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) mechanisms in C. estor, similar to other atherinopsids. This work further enhances our knowledge regarding the diversity and plasticity of TSD mechanisms in atherinopsid and teleost fish.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank CONACYT (project no. 168820), PROMEP-SEP, CIC-UMSNH and PIFI-UMSNH for the grants-in-aid provided to G.C.H. and for the funding. We also would like to thank S. Abad and M. C. Chávez-Sánchez from CIAD Mazatlán for their assistances with histology and photo processing. All experimental work was carried out under the ethical guidelines of the Universidad Michoacána de San Nicolás de Hidalgo.

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  1. Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Av. San Juanito Itzicuaro, S/N, Morelia, Michoacán, México, C.P. 58330

    Guillermo A. Corona-Herrera, Juan A. Tello-Ballinas, Carlos A. Martínez-Palacios & Carlos C. Martínez-Chávez

  2. Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo, 108-8477, Japan

    Ricardo S. Hattori & Carlos A. Strüssmann

  3. Unidad de Morfología y Función, FES- Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. de los Barrios N° 1, Los Reyes Iztacala, Tlalnepantla, Edo. de México, México, C.P. 54090

    Rodolfo R. Cárdenas-Reygadas

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Corona-Herrera, G.A., Tello-Ballinas, J.A., Hattori, R.S. et al. Gonadal differentiation and temperature effects on sex determination in the freshwater pike silverside Chirostoma estor Jordan 1880. Environ Biol Fish 99, 463–471 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-016-0491-z

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