Porcine Dax-1 gene: Isolation and expression during gonadal development

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-58

  Parma, Pietro ^a,b   Pailhoux, Eric ^a   Puissant, Claudine ^a   Cotinot, Corinne ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Istituto di Anatomia Patologica Veterinaria e Patologia Aviare   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME XP; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE ISOLATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SWINE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031463328     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(97)00189-5     Document Type: Article

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