Expression of Dmrt1 protein in developing and in sex-reversed gonads of amphibians

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 295-301

  Aoyama, S ^a   Shibata, K ^a   Tokunaga, S ^a   Takase, M ^b   Matsui, K ^a   Nakamura, M ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUTOSOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; DMRT1 GENE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXTRACTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GERM CELL; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEYDIG CELL; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROBE; SERTOLI CELL; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TADPOLE; TESTIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; OVARY; RANIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; MAMMALIA; RANA RUGOSA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346058357     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074352     Document Type: Conference Paper

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