The molecular genetic jigsaw puzzle of vertebrate sex determination and its missing pieces

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Volumn 244, Issue , 2002, Pages 225-239

  Scherer, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SRY PROTEIN, HUMAN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MAMMAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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