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Medakafish Mutant- d-rR


d-rR : The body color is white in females (bb, X^rX^r) and orange-red in males (bb, X^rY^R). This strain was established by Tokio Yamamoto (1953).

ORIGINAL PAPERS

Edmunds JS, McCarthy RA, Ramsdell JS
Permanent and Functional Male-to-Female Sex Reversal in d-rR Strain Medaka (Oryzias latipes) Following Egg Microinjection of o,p'-DDT.
Environ Health Perspect. 2000 Mar;108(3):219-224.
Iwamatsu T
Convenient method for sex reversal in a freshwater teleost, the medaka.
Journal of Experimental Zoology. 283(2). Feb. 1, 1999. 210-214.