Fish reproductive physiology; Sex determination, differentiation and control; Epigenetics; Aquaculture; Domestication; Climate change; Population sex ratios.
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10 Oct 2025
📢New paper! Find out about a buffering epigenetic effect transmitted from parents to offspring regulating the effects of multiple exposure to high temperature in sea bass🐟🌡️🌡️@nsanchba25 @ICMCSIC doi.org/10.1186/s13072-025-0…
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18 Oct 2024
📣 Early bird registration & abstract submission for #epimar2025 is now open! Join us next May in sunny Barcelona to hear and discuss the latest trends in #MarineEpigenetics. Register now for the best prices and help build the Epimar community! https:/epimar2025.org 🦀🐟🪸🌱
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16 Feb 2023
Check out our two last papers on epigenetic clocks for age estimation in fish. One, the first review on the subject, tells you everything you wanted to know about these clocks frontiersin.org/articles/10.… ...
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16 Feb 2023
... and the other shows how to build them for applications in fisheries management and conservation biology frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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🎉 Congratulations to our colleague Francesc Piferrer, from the @GroupBiolRepro: the book "Sex Control in Aquaculture" made it to @bookauthority 's best Aquaculture books of all time!
🔗bookauthority.org/award/Sex-…
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18 Oct 2022
🔊 Last GBR paper out! We provide a protocol to develop an #epigenetic #biomarker with prognostic and diagnostic value! It informs on the quality of thermal environment in farmed fish. Check it out from: doi.org/10.1016/j.aquacultur… @GroupBiolRepro @ICMCSIC
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27 Sep 2022
Do you want to take the most out of your #transcriptomicdata regardless of your question or species being used? Learn about our improved method for #biomarker discovery on our latest paper! @GroupBiolRepro @ICMCSIC @BMCBiology bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…
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8 Sep 2022
What a wonderful week! living the 30th CECE & ISFE joint congress in Portugal to the most with great scientists and friends :D couldn't ask for more.. and then I even won the 1st prize for the oral talk! Thanks! What an honour!! @GroupBiolRepro @ICMCSIC @J_Exp_Biol @ceceisfe2022
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28 Jun 2022
Unexpected results! We report that, in a global warming scenario, fish with chromosomal sex determination (SD) may not necessarily be better protected against the masculinizing effect of high temperature than fish with polygenic SD. doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.202…
ALT Zebrafish natural strains Ekkwill (EKW) and Nadia (NA), both with chromosomal sex determination (SD) and theoretically resilient to environmental perturbations, are readily masculinized by elevated temperature as the domesticated AB strain, which has polygenic sex determination and is easily influenced by environmental temperature.
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30 May 2022
Published! The evolutionary history of sexual systems in fish, with >4600 sp. analyzed. Separate sexes is the ancestral system, and sequential hermaphroditism is an intermediate step in the evolution of simultaneous hermaphroditism.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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10 Jan 2022
In a study carried out at Dr. Gen Hua's lab, we uncover transposon-induced epigenetic silencing in the X chromosome. This represents a previously undescribed
solution in animals relying on dmrt1 function for sex determination. Check the study at: doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-0…
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9 Dec 2021
Everything you ever wanted to know w about seabass sex
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What exactly is a hermaphrodite fish and how many are there in the world's oceans? How many undergo the process of sex change? Why are there so few freshwater hermaphrodite fishes? Find answers to these and other questions in our latest paper: rdcu.be/cyYtE
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21 Jul 2021
Epigenetic mechanisms in sex determination and in the evolutionary transitions between sexual systems | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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21 Jul 2021
New publictaion with the lab of Prof. Jorge Fernandes: Epigenetic mapping of the somatotropic axis in Nile tilapia reveals differential DNA hydroxymethylation marks assoc… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3421…
21 Jul 2021
New publication with the lab of Prof. Paulino Martínez: A GWAS shows sox2 as the putative sex determining gene in the turbot. doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2021…
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21 Jul 2021
New publication: Providing scientifically-based information helps to get a more positive attitude towards aquaculture sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
15 May 2021
🔊Publication out‼️🔊 Are the offspring from a sex reversed parent more sensitive to environmental perturbation? Check it out in the latest GBR paper by @dafanast and Francec Piferrer ➡️ karger.com/Article/FullText/…
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27 Jan 2021
Pre-print alert! I am so excited. This has been a long and fun journey! The evolutionary history of sexual systems in fish (well, 4740 spp) from a phylogenetic point of view but also considering life history traits and a new theoretical framework #TeamFish biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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