Vertebrate sex determination: Many means to an end

Reproduction

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 447-457

  Morrish, Bronwyn C ^a   Sinclair, Andrew H ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BIRD; CELL CULTURE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VERTEBRATE; Y CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATORINAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036794474     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.0.1240447     Document Type: Review

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