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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.
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This work was supported by the Key Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (QYZDY-SSW-SMC025), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB31000000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31873036, 32072958, 31922084, 31872960, 32102789), the National Key Research and Development Project (2018YFD0900204, 2018YFD0901201, 2018YFD0900203, 2018YFD0900201), the Consulting Research Projects of Hubei Institute of Chinese Engineering Development Strategies and Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2021-SM02-B-010), the China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA (CARS-45-07 and CARS-46), the Autonomous Project of the State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology (2019FBZ04), and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (2020334).
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Li, XY., Mei, J., Ge, CT. et al. Sex determination mechanisms and sex control approaches in aquaculture animals. Sci. China Life Sci. 65, 1091–1122 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-2075-x
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