Cloning and in situ hybridization analysis of estrogen receptor in the developing gonad of the red-eared slider turtle, a species with temperature- dependent sex determination

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 243-254

  Bergeron, Judith M ^a   Gahr, Manfred ^b   Horan, Karen ^c   Wibbels, Thane ^d   Crews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Estrogen receptor; Gonads; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR GENE; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TURTLE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031891082     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1998.00013.x     Document Type: Article

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