Temperature and non-aromatizable androgens: A common pathway in male sex determination in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination?

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 457-463

  Crews, D ^a   Cantu A R ^a   Bergeron, J M ^a   Texas, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3BETA ANDROSTANEDIOL; ANDROSTANEDIOL; ANDROSTANOLONE; ANDROSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FETUS; HEAT SENSITIVITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; TURTLE;

EID: 0029947009     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1490457     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Baum MJ & Vreeburg JTM 1976 Differential effects of the anti-estrogen MER-25 and of the three 5α-reduced androgens on mounting and lordosis behavior in the rat. Hormones and Behavior 7 87-104.
2. Bull JJ, Vogt RC & Bulmer MG 1982 Heritability of sex ratio in turtles with environmental sex determination. Evolution 70 425-428.
3. Chatterjee S & Price B 1977 Regression Analysis by Example. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
4. Crews D & Bergeron JM 1994 Role of reductase and aromatase in sex determination in the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta), a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. Journal of Endocrinology 143 279-289
5. Crews D, Wibbels T & Gutzke WHN 1989 Action of sex steroid hormones on temperature-induced sex determination in the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). General and Comparative Endocrinology 75 159-166
6. Crews D, Bull JJ & Wibbels T 1991 Estrogen and sex reversal in turtles: A dose-dependent phenomenon General and Comparative Endocrinology 81 357-364.
7. Crews D, Bergeron JM, Flores D, Bull JJ, Skipper JK, Tousignant A & Wibbels T 1994 Temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles: Proximate mechanisms, ultimate outcomes, and practical applications. Developmental Genetics 15 297-312
8. Crews D, Cantú AR, Bergeron JM & Rhen T 1995 The relative effectiveness of androstenedione, testosterone, and estrone, precursors to E2, in sex reversal in the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta), a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. General and Comparative Endocrinology 100 119-127.
9. Crews D, Cantú AR, Bergeron JM, Rhen T & Vohra R 1996 The relative effectiveness of estrone, estradiol-17β, and estriol in sex reversal in the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta), a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. General and Comparative Endocrinology (In Press)
10. Gahr M, Wibbels T & Crews D 1992 Site of estrogen uptake in embryonic Trachemys scripta, a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. Biology of Reproduction 46 458-463.
11. Gutzke WHN & Bull JJ 1986 Steroid hormones reverse sex in turtles General and Comparative Endocrinology 64 368-372.
12. Gutzke WHN & Chymiy BB 1988 Sensitive periods during embryogeny for hormonally-induced sex determination in turtles. General and Comparative Endocrinology 71 265-267.
13. Houston B & Habib FK 1988 A kinetic analysis of the inhibition of human prostatic 5α-reductase by 4-hydroxyandrostenedione and related steroids. Steroids 52 237-247.
14. Janzen FJ 1992 Heritable variation for sex ratio under environmental sex determination in the common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Genetics 131 155-161.
15. Rhen T & Lang JW 1994 Temperature-dependent sex determination in the snapping turtle: Manipulation of the embryonic sex steroid environment General and Comparative Endocrinology 96 243-255.
16. Schmidt WN, Sadler MA & Katzenelenbogen BS 1976 Androgen-uterine interactions: Nuclear translocation of the estrogen receptor and induction of the synthesis of the uterine-induced protein (IP) by high concentrations of androgens in vitro but not in vivo Endocrinology 98 702-716.
17. Sokal RR & Rohlf FJ 1981 Biometry, edn 2. New York: WH Freeman.
18. Thomas EO, Licht P, Wibbels T & Crews D 1992 Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity associated with sexual differentiation in embryos of the turtle Trachemys scripta. Biology of Reproduction 46 140-145.
19. Vilchis F, Enriquez J, Queipo G, Perez-Palacios G & Chavez B 1994 Steroid 5α-reductase activity in the Harderian glands of male and female Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). General and Comparative Endocrinology 96 298-308.
20. Wibbels T & Crews D 1992 Specificity of steroid-induced sex determination in a turtle. Journal of Endocrinology 133 121-129.
21. Wibbels T & Crews D 1994 Putative aromatase inhibitor induces male sex determination in a female unisexual lizard and in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. Journal of Endocrinology 141 295-299
22. Wibbels T & Crews D 1995 Steroid-induced sex determination at intermediate incubation temperatures in a turtle with TSD. General and Comparative Endocrinology 100 53-60
23. Wibbels T, Bull JJ & Crews D 1991a Chronology and morphology of temperature-dependent sex determination. Journal of Experimental Zoology 260 371-381
24. Wibbels T, Bull JJ & Crews D 1991b Synergism between temperature and estradiol: A common pathway in turtle sex determination? Journal of Experimental Zoology 260 130-134.
25. Wibbels T, Bull JJ & Crews D 1992 Hormone-induced sex determination in an amniotic vertebrate. Journal of Experimental Zoology 262 454-457
26. Wibbels T, Kellog P, Bull JJ & Crews D 1993 Morphological characterization of estrogen-induced and temperature-induced sex determination in a turtle. Differentiation 53 149-154.