• Key genes and regulators associated with sexual differentiation and gonad development in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) 

      Johnsen, Hanne (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2012-02-17)
      Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) is a promising cold-water aquaculture species, but early sexual maturation is a major problem in today’s cod farming. Teleosts display a wide variety of sex determination and sex differentiation mechanisms, ranging from genetic to environmental factors and the sexual plasticity in gonads and brain possibly reflects on a combination of these. From a practical point of ...