Identification of two teleost homologs of the Drosophila sex determination factor, transformer-2 in medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 121, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 991-996

  Shiraishi, Eri ^a   Imazato, Hideo ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^b   Yokoi, Hayato ^c   Abe, Shin Ichi ^a   Kitano, Takeshi ^a,d  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ cell; Medaka; Sex differentiation; Teleost; Tra2; Transformer 2

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFORMER 2A PROTEIN; TRANSFORMER 2B PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GERM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042517750     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2004.04.013     Document Type: Article

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