Abstract
Jian-Kang Liu: A pioneer of sex determination studies in vertebrates.
Highlights
Jian-Kang Liu was born in Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province in 1917
In 1938, he graduated from the Biology Department of Soochow University, and accepted an offer from Institute of Zoology and Botany of Academia Sinica and began his innovative studies on fish biology directed by famous ichthyologist Dr Xian-Wen Wu (伍献文) (Fig. 2)
As a young scholar, Jian-Kang Liu studied very hard and became the first to notice an unusual phenomenon about the sexuality of rice field eel (Monopterus javanensis) and obtained his early most remarkable achievement when he was only 27 years old
Summary
In 1938, he graduated from the Biology Department of Soochow University, and accepted an offer from Institute of Zoology and Botany of Academia Sinica and began his innovative studies on fish biology directed by famous ichthyologist Dr Xian-Wen Wu (伍献文) (Fig. 2). As a young scholar, Jian-Kang Liu studied very hard and became the first to notice an unusual phenomenon about the sexuality of rice field eel (Monopterus javanensis) and obtained his early most remarkable achievement when he was only 27 years old.
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