List of the candidate marker genes of the sexual pathway of P. margaritifera.

M or F: male or female in gametogenesis; FE: female at early stage; FI: female at intermediate stage; FM: female at mature stage; (M/F)R: male/female at regression stage; Und(M/F): Undifferentiated gonad at the cellular level beginning a male or a female determination/differentiation at the molecular level; Inv(M/F): oyster in sexual inversion female to male or male to female; MRF: male at regression stage at the cellular level beginning a female determination/differentiation at the molecular level.List of the candidate marker genes of the sexual pathway of P. margaritifera.