Mammalian sex determination: Joining pieces of the genetic puzzle

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 696-699

  Jiménez, Rafael ^a   Burgos, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAX-1 PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; SRY PROTEIN, MOUSE; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GONAD; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SERTOLI CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0344043347     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199809)20:9<696::AID-BIES2>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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