Oryzias curvinotus has DMY, a gene that is required for male development in the medaka, O. latipes

Zoological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-161

  Matsuda, Masaru ^a   Sato, Tadashi ^b   Toyazaki, Yota ^b   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^a   Hamaguchi, Satoshi ^b   Sakaizumi, Mitsuru ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DMRT1; DMY; Medaka; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

FISH PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; LATIPES; ORYZIAS CURVINOTUS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038782819     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.20.159     Document Type: Article

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