Inventing a Sex-Specific Gene: A Conserved Role of DMRT1 in Teleost Fishes Plus a Recent Duplication in the Medaka Oryzias latipes Resulted in DMY

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Lutfalla, Georges ^a   Roest Crollius, Hugues ^b   Brunet, Frédéric G ^b,c   Laudet, Vincent ^c   Robinson Rechavi, Marc ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

DMRT1 gene; DMY gene; Oryzias latipes; Teleost fish

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DMRT1 GENE; DMY GENE; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SRY GENE; TELEOST; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; FISHES; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; PERCOMORPHA; PISCES; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOST FISH; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODON; TETRAODON NIGROVIRIDIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346750658     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-0021-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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