DMRT1 in a ratite bird: Evidence for a role in sex determination and discovery of a putative regulatory element

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 245-251

  Shetty, S ^a   Kirby, P ^a,b   Zarkower, D ^c   Graves, J A M ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME ARM; DMRT1 GENE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; EXONS; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PALAEOGNATHAE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AVES; DROMAIUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PALAEOGNATHAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344530891     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071600     Document Type: Article

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