Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution in the medaka, Oryzias latipes, and the platyfish, Xiphophorus maculatus

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 170-177

  Volff, J N ^a   Schartl, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN DMRT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOSOME; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FISH GENETICS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SRY GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DANIO RERIO; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; PISCES; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA; XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 0345393206     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071590     Document Type: Review

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