Zhi He, Lijuan Ye, Deying Yang, Zhijun Ma, Faqiang Deng, Zhide He, Jiaxiang Hu, Hongjun Chen, Li Zheng, Yong Pu, Yuanyuan Jiao, Qiqi Chen, Kuo Gao, Jinxin Xiong, Bolin Lai, Xiaobin Gu, Xiaoli Huang, Shiyong Yang, Mingwang Zhang, Taiming Yan
BACKGROUND: An increasing number of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been found to play important roles in sex differentiation and gonad development by regulating gene expression at the epigenetic, transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. The ricefield eel, Monopterus albus, is a protogynous hermaphroditic fish that undergoes a sequential sex change from female to male. However, the roles of lncRNA in the sex change is unclear. RESULTS: Herein, we performed RNA sequencing to analyse lncRNA expression patterns in five different stages of M...
June 20, 2022: BMC Genomics