Cloning of the dmrt1 gene of Xiphophorus maculatus: DmY/dmrt1Y is not the master sex-determining gene in the platyfish

Gene

Volumn 317, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 59-66

  Veith, Anne Marie ^a   Froschauer, Alexander ^a   Körting, Cornelia ^a   Nanda, Indrajit ^a   Hanel, Reinhold ^a   Schmid, Michael ^a   Schartl, Manfred ^a   Volff, Jean Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DM domain; Fish; Medaka; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; AUTOSOME; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DMRT1 GENE; DMRT1Y GENE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROBE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FISH; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLATYFISH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SRY GENE; TESTIS; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; TELEOST FISH; TELEOSTEI; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 0013218241     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00664-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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