Melissa Lamm

Works (13)

Updated: June 28th, 2025 05:02

2025 article

Gut length evolved under sexual conflict in Lake Malawi cichlids

Baez, A. C., Ciccotto, P. J., Moore, E. C., Peterson, E. N., Lamm, M. S., Roberts, N. B., … Roberts, R. B. (2025, May 26). (J. Gleason, Ed.). Genetics, Vol. 6.

By: A. Baez n , P. Ciccotto*, E. Moore *, E. Peterson n, M. Lamm n, N. Roberts n, K. Coyle n, M. Barker n ...

Ed(s): J. Gleason

author keywords: dietary adaptation; sexual conflict; sex differences; cichlid fish; intestine; trophic level; QTL
topics (OpenAlex): Fish Ecology and Management Studies; Fish Biology and Ecology Studies; Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
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Added: May 26, 2025

2022 article

Characterization and distribution of kisspeptins, kisspeptin receptors, GnIH, and GnRH1 in the brain of the protogynous bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum)

Lamm, M. S., Lamb, A. D., Klapheke, B. P., Tyler, W. A., & Godwin, J. R. (2022, March 10). Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy, Vol. 4.

By: M. Lamm n, A. Lamb n, B. Klapheke n, W. Tyler * & J. Godwin n 

author keywords: Kisspeptin; GnRH; GnIH; Teleost; Reproduction; Sex change
MeSH headings : Animals; Brain / metabolism; Female; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / metabolism; Gonadotropins / metabolism; Kisspeptins / genetics; Kisspeptins / metabolism; Male; Perciformes / metabolism
topics (OpenAlex): Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones; Plant Reproductive Biology; Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
TL;DR: This study characterized expression of kisspeptin-system genes (kiss1, kiss2, kissr1, and kissr2), gnih, and gnrh1 in the brain of the bluehead wrasse, an important teleost model of socially-controlled sex change and suggested that if kisspeptins do signal GnRH1 neurons, the interaction is indirect, possibly through neurons adjacent to Gn RH1. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: June 20, 2022

2022 article

Polygenic sex determination produces modular sex polymorphism in an African cichlid fish

Moore, E. C., Ciccotto, P. J., Peterson, E. N., Lamm, M. S., Albertson, R. C., & Roberts, R. B. (2022, March 31). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 4.

By: E. Moore n, P. Ciccotto*, E. Peterson n, M. Lamm n, R. Albertson * & R. Roberts n 

author keywords: sex chromosomes; Malawi African cichlids; sexual dimorphism; sex determination
MeSH headings : Animals; Cichlids / genetics; Cichlids / physiology; Female; Genetic Fitness; Male; Phenotype; Polymorphism, Genetic; Sex Characteristics; Sex Chromosomes / genetics; Sex Determination Processes
topics (OpenAlex): Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities; Genetic diversity and population structure; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
TL;DR: This work investigates how sex differences emerge in a species with more than one set of sex chromosomes, measuring a variety of morphological, physiological, and behavioral traits and finds that significant creation or loss of variation in diverse traits can occur during transitions among sex chromosome systems. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: May 10, 2022

2021 article

Estrogenic signaling and sociosexual behavior in wild sex‐changing bluehead wrasses, Thalassoma bifasciatum

Prim, J. H., Phillips, M. C., Lamm, M. S., Brady, J., Cabral, I., Durden, S., … Godwin, J. (2021, November 9). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Vol. 11.

By: J. Prim  n, M. Phillips n, M. Lamm n, J. Brady*, I. Cabral*, S. Durden*, E. Dustin  n, A. Hazellief* ...

author keywords: aromatase; estrogen; estrogen receptor; sex change; sociosexual behavior
MeSH headings : Animals; Female; Fishes; Gonads; Male; Perciformes; Sex Determination Processes; Sex Differentiation
topics (OpenAlex): Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species; Animal Behavior and Reproduction
TL;DR: Variation in estrogenic signaling across three sexual phenotypes is examined, suggesting alterations in neural estrogen signaling are key regulators of socially-controlled sex change and sexual phenotype differences and the possibility that an inverted-U shaped relationship between neural estrogen and male-typical behaviors is more common than presently appreciated. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: November 15, 2021

2019 article

Conservation and diversity in expression of candidate genes regulating socially-induced female-male sex change in wrasses

Thomas, J. T., Todd, E. V., Muncaster, S., Lokman, P. M., Damsteegt, E. L., Liu, H., … Gemmell, N. J. (2019, June 11). PeerJ, Vol. 7.

By: J. Thomas *, E. Todd *, S. Muncaster *, P. Lokman *, E. Damsteegt *, H. Liu *, K. Soyano *, F. Gléonnec* ...

author keywords: Protogynous sex change; Bluehead wrasse; Spotty wrasse; Kyusen wrasse; Quantitative real-time PCR; Sex-biased gene expression; cyp19a1a; cyp19a1b; amh; Isotocin
topics (OpenAlex): Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities; Animal Behavior and Reproduction; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
TL;DR: While key components of the molecular machinery controlling gonadal sex change are phylogenetically conserved among wrasses, neural pathways governing behavioural sex change may be more variable. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: July 1, 2019

2019 journal article

Stress, novel sex genes, and epigenetic reprogramming orchestrate socially controlled sex change

Science Advances, 5(7), eaaw7006.

By: E. Todd *, O. Ortega-Recalde *, H. Liu *, M. Lamm n, K. Rutherford *, H. Cross *, M. Black *, O. Kardailsky* ...

MeSH headings : Androgens / genetics; Androgens / metabolism; Animals; Epigenesis, Genetic / physiology; Estrogens / genetics; Estrogens / metabolism; Female; Fishes / genetics; Fishes / metabolism; Male; Sex Determination Processes / physiology
topics (OpenAlex): Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities; Animal Genetics and Reproduction; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
TL;DR: These findings reveal at a molecular level how a normally committed developmental process remains plastic and is reversed to completely alter organ structures. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: August 19, 2019

2017 journal article

Female Mimicry by Sneaker Males Has a Transcriptomic Signature in Both the Brain and the Gonad in a Sex-Changing Fish

Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35(1), 225–241.

By: E. Todd *, H. Liu *, M. Lamm n, J. Thomas *, K. Rutherford *, K. Thompson n, J. Godwin n , N. Gemmell *

author keywords: developmental plasticity; alternative male reproductive strategies; transcriptomics; phenotypic plasticity
MeSH headings : Adaptation, Physiological / genetics; Animals; Biological Mimicry / genetics; Brain / metabolism; Female; Gene Expression Profiling / methods; Gene Expression Regulation / genetics; Gonads / metabolism; Male; Oxytocin / analogs & derivatives; Perciformes / genetics; Phenotype; Reproduction / physiology; Sex Characteristics; Sexual Behavior, Animal / physiology; Transcriptome / genetics
topics (OpenAlex): Animal Behavior and Reproduction; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species; Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
TL;DR: It is proposed that morphological female-mimicry by sneaker male teleosts entails pervasive downregulation of androgenesis genes, consistent with low androgen production in males lacking well-developed secondary sexual characters. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: August 6, 2018

2017 journal article

Socially controlled sex change in fishes

Hormones, Brain and Behavior, Vol 2: Non-Mammalian Hormone-Behavior Systems, 3rd Edition, 31–46.

By: J. Godwin  & M. Lamm

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Sexual plasticity: A fishy tale

Molecular Reproduction and Development, 84(2), 171–194.

By: H. Liu *, E. Todd *, P. Lokman *, M. Lamm n, J. Godwin n  & N. Gemmell *

MeSH headings : Animals; Female; Fishes / physiology; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / metabolism; Luteinizing Hormone / metabolism; Male; Sex Determination Processes / physiology; Sexual Maturation / physiology; Signal Transduction / physiology
topics (OpenAlex): Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species; Animal Behavior and Reproduction
TL;DR: It is proposed that cortisol and key neurochemicals modulate gonadotropin releasing hormone and luteinizing hormone signaling to promote socially controlled sex change in protogynous fish. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: August 6, 2018

2015 journal article

Characterizing the neurotranscriptomic states in alternative stress coping styles

BMC Genomics, 16, 425.

By: R. Wong  n, M. Lamm n & J. Godwin n 

author keywords: Stress; Coping style; Proactive; Reactive; Anxiety; Brain; Danio rerio; Transcriptome; RNA-sequencing; Gene coexpression network
MeSH headings : Animals; Behavior, Animal / physiology; Brain / metabolism; Fatty Acids / metabolism; Gene Regulatory Networks; RNA / analysis; RNA / isolation & purification; Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; Sequence Analysis, RNA; Stress, Psychological / physiopathology; Transcriptome; Zebrafish / genetics; Zebrafish / metabolism
topics (OpenAlex): Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications; Physiological and biochemical adaptations; Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
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2015 journal article

Large-scale transcriptome sequencing reveals novel expression patterns for key sex-related genes in a sex-changing fish

Biology of Sex Differences, 6(1).

By: H. Liu *, M. Lamm n, K. Rutherford *, M. Black *, J. Godwin n  & N. Gemmell *

author keywords: Sex-biased gene expression; Sexual dimorphism; Brain; Gonad; Transcriptome; RNA-seq; Protogynous sex change; Bluehead wrasse
topics (OpenAlex): Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species; Gender Studies in Language
TL;DR: The first transcriptomic analysis for a protogynous fish is reported, providing the first molecular data on a system ideally suited to explore the molecular basis of sexual plasticity and tissue re-engineering and sheds some light on the evolution of diverse sex determination and differentiation systems. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2015 article

The Need for Speed: Neuroendocrine Regulation of Socially-controlled Sex Change

Lamm, M. S., Liu, H., Gemmell, N. J., & Godwin, J. R. (2015, May 16). Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 55, pp. 307–322.

By: M. Lamm n, H. Liu *, N. Gemmell * & J. Godwin n 

MeSH headings : Animals; Female; Fishes / physiology; Male; Neurosecretory Systems / physiology; Perciformes / physiology; Sex Determination Processes; Social Behavior
topics (OpenAlex): Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities; Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species; Animal Behavior and Reproduction
TL;DR: Advances in genomics now allow study of the role of epigenetic modifications and other regulatory mechanisms in the dramatic alterations across the sex-change process, and contributions of other neuroendocrine systems should be better characterized. (via Semantic Scholar)
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2012 article

Variation in gene transcript profiles of two V1a-type arginine vasotocin receptors among sexual phases of bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum)

Lema, S. C., Slane, M. A., Salvesen, K. E., & Godwin, J. (2012, October 17). General and Comparative Endocrinology, Vol. 179, pp. 451–464.

By: S. Lema *, M. Slane n, K. Salvesen* & J. Godwin n 

author keywords: Receptor; Sex change; Neuropeptide; Arginine vasopressin; Fish; Gonad; Hypothalamus
MeSH headings : Animals; Female; Male; Perciformes / genetics; Receptors, Vasopressin / genetics; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
topics (OpenAlex): Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior; Cephalopods and Marine Biology; Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that V1a-type AVT receptor transcript abundance in the hypothalamus and gonads of bluehead wrasse varies in patterns linked to sexual phase, and bestow a foundation for future studies investigating how differential expression of v1a1 and v1A2 teleost AVT receptors links to behavioral status and gonadal function in fish more broadly. (via Semantic Scholar)
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