Sex determination: The amphibian models

Reproduction Nutrition Development

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 539-549

  Eggert, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Epigenetic factors; Hermaphroditism; Sex determination mechanisms; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ACONITATE HYDRATASE; ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE TRANSLOCASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALBUMIN; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; ENOLASE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATASE; HEXOKINASE; IDITOL DEHYDROGENASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; PEPTIDASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMPHIBIA; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HEREDITY; HERMAPHRODITISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SRY GENE; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; OVARY; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS;

EID: 14644412411     PISSN: 09265287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/rnd:2004062     Document Type: Review

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