Evolutionarily conserved, DMRT1, encodes alternatively spliced transcripts and shows dimorphic expression during gonadal differentiation in the lizard, Calotes versicolor

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 51-60

  Sreenivasulu, K ^b   Ganesh, Subramaniam ^a   Raman, Rajiva ^c  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Calotes versicolor; Cytologically distinguishable sex chromosome; DMRT1; Genital ridge; Germ cells; Gonadal differentiation; Sertoli cells; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DMRT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; LIZARD; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; OVARY CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; SERTOLI CELL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TESTIS CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIZARDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CALOTES; CALOTES VERSICOLOR; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0036872801     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(02)00357-X     Document Type: Article

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