Sex-specific expression of an evolutionarily conserved male regulatory gene, DMRT1, in birds

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 252-257

  Shan, Z ^a,b   Nanda, I ^c   Wang, Y ^a,b   Schmid, M ^c   Vortkamp, A ^a   Haaf, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033819981     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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