Sexually dimorphic expression of multiple doublesex-related genes in the embryonic mouse gonad

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-82

  Kim, Shinseog ^a   Kettlewell, Jae R ^a   Anderson, Robert C ^a   Bardwell, Vivian J ^a   Zarkower, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

DM domain; Dmrt1; Doublesex; Gonad; Mab 3

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MESODERM; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOMITE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037347326     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-133X(02)00071-6     Document Type: Article

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