Early expression of AMH in chicken embryonic gonads precedes testicular SOX9 expression

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 522-532

  Oreal, Emmanuelle ^a   Pieau, Claude ^b   Mattei, Marie Genevieve ^c   Josso, Nathalie ^a   Picard, Jean Yves ^a   Carré Eusèbe, Danièle ^a   Magre, Solange ^d  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

AMH; Chick embryo; MIS; Ovary; Sex differentiation; SOX9; Testis

Indexed keywords

MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031880363     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199808)212:4<522::AID-AJA5>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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