Molecular cloning and analysis of gonadal expression of Foxl2 in the medaka, Oryzias latipes

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 344, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 353-361

  Nakamoto, Masatoshi ^a   Matsuda, Masaru ^b,c   Wang, De Shou ^b,c,d   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^b,c   Shibata, Naoki ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Folliculogenesis; Foxl2; Granulosa cell; Medaka; Ovarian development; Sex differentiation; Teleost

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOX12; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOMATIC CELL; TESTIS; VITELLOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GRANULOSA CELLS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; OVARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTIS; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; ORYZIAS; ORYZIAS LATIPES; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646052575     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.03.137     Document Type: Article

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