Sex reversal caused by Mus musculus domesticus Y chromosomes linked to variant expression of the testis-determining gene Sry

Developmental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 182-194

  Nagamine, Claude M ^a   Morohashi, Ken Ichirou ^b   Carlisle, Cherlyn ^a   Chang, Dennis K ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mus musculus domesticus; Sex determination; Sex reversal; Sry; tda; Testis determination

Indexed keywords

TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; Y CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032738901     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9436     Document Type: Article

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