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Sex-Determining Mechanisms in Bivalves

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In this review, we provide an overview of the current knowledge on the different sexual systems and sex-determining mechanisms in bivalves, with a focus on the various epigenetic and genetic factors that may be involved. The final section of the review provides recent discoveries on sex-specific mitochondrial genes in bivalves possessing the unconventional system of doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria (which is found in several members of the orders Mytiloida, Unionoida, Veneroida, and Nuculanoida). The genes involved in this developmental pathway could represent the first sex-determination system in animals in which mitochondrially encoded genes are directly involved.

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Breton, S., Capt, C., Guerra, D., Stewart, D. (2018). Sex-Determining Mechanisms in Bivalves. In: Leonard, J. (eds) Transitions Between Sexual Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94139-4_6

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