A male-specific role for SOX9 in vertebrate sex determination

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2813-2822

  Kent, Jill ^a   Wheatley, Susan C ^a   Andrews, Jane E ^b   Sinclair, Andrew H ^b   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chick; Evolution; Mouse; Sex determination; SOX9

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL TYPE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; MALE; MOUSE; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029838394     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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