Embryonic brain-gonadal axis in temperature-dependent sex determination of reptiles: A role for P450 aromatase (CYP19)

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 281, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 428-449

  Jeyasuria, Pancharatnam ^a   Place, Allen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; AROMATASE; BASE PAIRING; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN GONADAL AXIS; CHICKEN; ESTROGEN; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BRAIN; CHOLESTENONE 5 ALPHA-REDUCTASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; OVARY; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REPTILES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; TURTLES;

EID: 0032146511     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19980801)281:5<428::AID-JEZ8>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Conference Paper

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