Absence of the candidate male sex-determining gene dmrt1b(Y) of medaka from other fish species

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 416-420

  Kondo, Mariko ^a   Nanda, Indrajit ^a   Hornung, Ute ^a   Asakawa, Shuichi ^c   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^c   Mitani, Hiroshi ^b   Schmid, Michael ^a   Shima, Akihiro ^b   Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DROSOPHILA; MAMMALIA; ORYZIAS; PISCES;

EID: 0037418591     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00125-8     Document Type: Article

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