Interactions between SRY and SOX genes in mammalian sex determination

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 264-269

  Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SOX-9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; MALE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032031962     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199803)20:3<264::AID-BIES10>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Review

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