Sex determination in fish: Lessons from the sex-determining gene of the teleost medaka, Oryzias latipes

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 397-403

  Matsuda, Masaru ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DM domain; DMY; Medaka; Sex determination; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; CELL FUNCTION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONAD; HATCHING; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROGENY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES; SRY GENE; TELEOST; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; VERTEBRATE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; ORYZIAS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346688587     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2003.00716.x     Document Type: Review

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