Publications by authors named "Wei-Lun Kuo"
Article Synopsis
- - The study focuses on how the brain-pituitary-testis axis influences male development and hinders female traits in black porgy fish, exploring the unclear feedback between gonadal hormones and brain signals.
- - Experiments included short-term sex steroid treatments and surgical gonadectomy, revealing that male fish showed the highest levels of gths transcripts, while hormone treatments increased pituitary lhb transcripts.
- - Findings suggest that exogenous sex steroids impact gths transcription related to gonadal development, and gonadectomy doesn’t significantly change brain signaling gene expression, indicating a communication link between the testis and brain for male fate management.
Unlike gonochoristic fishes, sex is fixed after gonadal differentiation (primary sex determination), and sex can be altered in adults (secondary sex determination) of hermaphroditic fish species. The secondary sex determination of hermaphroditic fish has focused on the differences between testicular tissue and ovarian tissue during the sex change process. However, comprehensive studies analyzing ovarian tissue or testicular tissue independently have not been performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe accessory nidamental gland (ANG) is a female reproductive organ found in most squid and cuttlefish that contains a consortium of bacteria. These symbiotic bacteria are transmitted from the marine environment and selected by the host through an unknown mechanism. In animals, a common antimicrobial mechanism of innate immunity is iron sequestration, which is based on the development of transferrin (TF)-like proteins.
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