The reporter learned from Shanghai Ocean University that after more than 10 years of exploration and research, Professor Hu Wei's team from Shanghai Ocean University collaborated with the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other organizations to target the Yellow River carp, a representative species of the carp family, and discovered the first sex-determining main gene in carp fish. This is a new gene that has not been reported in any research before. To this end, the team named the new gene after “Pangu,” a representative of male power in ancient Chinese mythology and pioneering function, implying its key function in determining the occurrence of male fish and initiating the development and fate of both sexes.

The reporter learned from Shanghai Ocean University that after more than 10 years of exploration and research, Professor Hu Wei's team from Shanghai Ocean University collaborated with the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other organizations to target the Yellow River carp, a representative species of the carp family, and discovered the first sex-determining main gene in carp fish. This is a new gene that has not been studied and reported before. To this end, the team named the new gene after “Pangu,” a representative of male power in ancient Chinese mythology and pioneering function, implying its key function in determining the occurrence of male fish and initiating the development and fate of both sexes.