Expression profiles of Dax1, Dmrt1, and Sox9 during temperature sex determination in gonads of the sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 20-26

  Torres Maldonado, L C ^a   Landa Piedra, A ^b   Moreno Mendoza, N ^a   Marmolejo Valencia, A ^a   Meza Martinez A ^a   Merchant Larios, H ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dax1; Dmrt1; Sox9; Temperature sex determination (TSD)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAX1 GENE; DMRT1 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GONAD; LEPIDOCHELYS OLIVACEA; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOX9 GENE; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; TURTLE;

LEPIDOCHELYS OLIVACEA;

EID: 0037210301     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(02)00511-7     Document Type: Article

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