Temperature-dependent sex determination in the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 281, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 409-416

  Wibbels, Thane ^a   Cowan, Jon ^a   Leboeuf, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CLONED GENE; CYTOCHROME DNA; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; EVALUATION; INCUBATION; SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE; TESTICULAR HORMONES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TURTLES;

EID: 0032145039     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19980801)281:5<409::AID-JEZ6>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Conference Paper

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