1 Sry and Mammalian Sex Determination

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 34, Issue C, 1996, Pages 1-23

  Greenfield, Andy ^a   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SRY PROTEIN, HUMAN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0029686666     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(08)60707-3     Document Type: Article

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