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The stoplight parrotfish is a protogynous hermaphrodite that shows full sexual dichromatism, meaning that it changes its sex from female to male during its lifespan, and its color changes with its sex change. [4] The sex change is most likely due to the control of hormones, in particular, 11-ketetestosterone (11-KT). [5]
Protogynous sex change is the female to male gonadal redifferentiation, and it is often found within species that practice haremic polygyny, or one male reproducing with many females. When socially dominant males disappear, larger initial phase female fish will undergo sex change to become terminal phase males.
The ZW sex-determination system is a chromosomal system that determines the sex of offspring in birds, some fish and crustaceans such as the giant river prawn, some insects (including butterflies and moths), the schistosome family of flatworms, and some reptiles, e.g. majority of snakes, lacertid lizards and monitors, including Komodo dragons.
Pattern IA occurs in most turtles, with the transition between male-producing temperatures and female-producing temperatures occurring over a range of temperatures as little as 1–2°C. [15] Pattern IB also has a single transition zone, but females are produced below it and males above it. Pattern IB occurs in multiple fish species [5] and the ...
One such example is a species in the genus Poeciliopsis. This fish consist only of females that mates with males from a closely related species. All the paternal chromosomes are discarded during the production of eggs. The females get to pass their maternal genome to the next generation, unlike the males of the other species. [31]
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A sequential hermaphrodite produces eggs (female gametes) and sperm (male gametes) at different stages in life. [2] Sequential hermaphroditism occurs in many fish , gastropods , and plants. Species that can undergo these changes do so as a normal event within their reproductive cycle, usually cued by either social structure or the achievement ...