Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination: The Interplay of Steroid Hormones and Temperature

Zoological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-13

  Crews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEX HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE; TURTLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TURTLES;

EID: 0030078324     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.13.1     Document Type: Review

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