Francesc Piferrer

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Best Publications

• Polyploid fish and shellfish: Production, biology and applications to aquaculture for performance improvement and genetic containment

  Francesc Piferrer;Andy Beaumont;Jean-Claude Falguière;Martin Flajšhans

  755
  Citations

• Ovarian aromatase and estrogens: A pivotal role for gonadal sex differentiation and sex change in fish

  Yann Guiguen;Alexis Fostier;Francesc Piferrer;Ching-Fong Chang

  732
  Citations

• Endocrine sex control strategies for the feminization of teleost fish

  Francesc Piferrer

  708
  Citations

• Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Fish Revisited: Prevalence, a Single Sex Ratio Response Pattern, and Possible Effects of Climate Change

  Natalia Ospina-Álvarez;Francesc Piferrer

  581
  Citations

• DNA methylation of the gonadal aromatase (cyp19a) promoter is involved in temperature-dependent sex ratio shifts in the European sea bass.

  Laia Navarro-Martín;Jordi Viñas;Laia Ribas;Noelia Díaz

  558
  Citations

• European sea bass genome and its variation provide insights into adaptation to euryhalinity and speciation

  Mbaye Tine;Heiner Kuhl;Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire;Bruno Louro

  497
  Citations

• Consistent inverse correlation between DNA methylation of the first intron and gene expression across tissues and species

  Dafni Anastasiadi;Anna Esteve-Codina;Francesc Piferrer

  348
  Citations

• Brief treatment with an aromatase inhibitor during sex differentiation causes chromosomally female salmon to develop as normal, functional males

  Francesc Piferrer;Silvia Zanuy;Manuel Carrillo;Igor I. Solar

  337
  Citations

• Fish Gonadogenesis. Part I: Genetic and Environmental Mechanisms of Sex Determination

  David J. Penman;Francesc Piferrer

  252
  Citations

• Epigenetics of sex determination and gonadogenesis

  Francesc Piferrer

  241
  Citations

• Genetic architecture of sex determination in fish: applications to sex ratio control in aquaculture.

  Paulino Martínez;Ana M. Viñas;Laura Sánchez;Noelia Díaz

  219
  Citations

• Genetic, endocrine, and environmental components of sex determination and differentiation in the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.)

  Francesc Piferrer;Mercedes Blázquez;Laia Navarro;Alicia González

  209
  Citations

• Induction of triploidy and gynogenesis in teleost fish with emphasis on marine species.

  Alicia Felip;Silvia Zanuy;Manuel Carrillo;Francesc Piferrer

  204
  Citations

• Gonadal differentiation in coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, after a single treatment with androgen or estrogen at different stages during ontogenesis

  Francesc Piferrer;Edward M. Donaldson

  200
  Citations

• The zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model organism, with emphasis on applications for finfish aquaculture research

  Laia Ribas;Francesc Piferrer

  196
  Citations

• Fish Gonadogenesis. Part II: Molecular Biology and Genomics of Sex Differentiation

  Francesc Piferrer;Yann Guiguen

  194
  Citations

• Feminization of wild carp, Cyprinus carpio, in a polluted environment: plasma steroid hormones, gonadal morphology and xenobiotic metabolizing system.

  M Solé;D Raldua;F Piferrer;D Barceló

  185
  Citations

• Aromatase distribution and regulation in fish

  Francesc Piferrer;Mercedes Blázquez

  173
  Citations

• Cloning, sequence analysis, tissue distribution, and sex-specific expression of the neural form of P450 aromatase in juvenile sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

  Mercedes Blázquez;Francesc Piferrer

  154
  Citations

• Aromatase activity in the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) brain. Distribution and changes in relation to age, sex, and the annual reproductive cycle.

  Alicia González;Francesc Piferrer

  152
  Citations