Hormonal Sex Control of Largemouth Bass
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Progressive Fish-Culturist
- Vol. 51 (3) , 146-148
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8640(1989)051<0146:hscolb>2.3.co;2
Abstract
Experiments were conducted to determine the potential for controlling sex of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) by administration of steroid hormones (17β-estradiol, estrone, 17∝-methyltestosterone, and androsterone) in food to larvae. In one experiment, a commercial pelleted feed was soaked in hormone (50 or 100 mg/kg). In a second experiment, fish were fed live brine shrimp (Artemia gracilis) reared in culture media containing hormone (5 mg/L). Both methods were successful in masculinizing females, but only the live brine shrimp method was 100% successful in changing sex in either direction.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The Effects of Methyltestosterone on Sex Reversal in BluegillThe Progressive Fish-Culturist, 1973
- The Production of Unisexual Broods by Tilapia mossambica Sex-reversed with Methyl TestosteroneTransactions of the American Fisheries Society, 1968