Medaka dmY/dmrt1Y is not the universal primary sex-determining gene in fish

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 196-199

  Volff, Jean Nicolas ^a   Kondo, Mariko ^a   Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DMRT1Y GENE; DMY GENE; DUPLICATE GENE; FISH; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SRY GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TILAPIA; VERTEBRATE; Y CHROMOSOME;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; MAMMALIA; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE; TILAPIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037383262     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00051-9     Document Type: Review

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