Temperature-dependent sex determination: Upregulation of SOX9 expression after commitment to male development

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 171-177

  Western, Patrick S ^a,b   Harry, Jenny L ^c   Graves, Jennifer A M ^b   Sinclair, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Gonadogenesis; Reptile; SOX9; Temperature dependent sex determination; Testis differentiation

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TESTIS CELL; TRANSACTIVATION; VERTEBRATE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032979117     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0177(199903)214:3<171::AID-AJA1>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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