The LIM homeobox gene Lhx9 is essential for mouse gonad formation

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6772, 2000, Pages 909-913

  Birk, Ohad S ^a   Caslano, Delane E ^a   Wassif, Christopher A ^a   Cogilatl, Tiziana ^b   Zhaos, Liping ^c   Zhao, Yangu ^a   Grinberg, Alexander ^a   Huang, SingPing ^a   Kreidberg, Jordan A ^d   Parker, Keith L ^c   Porter, Forbes D ^a   Westphal, Helner ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL AGENESIS; HOMEOBOX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GONADS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0343340431     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002622     Document Type: Article

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