Comparative gene expression of steroidogenic factor 1 in Chrysemys picta and Apalone mutica turtles with temperature-dependent and genotypic sex determination

Evolution and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 424-432

  Valenzuela, Nicole ^a   LeClere, Andrea ^a   Shikano, Takahito ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIELD METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURTLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE; TURTLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TURTLES;

APALONE MUTICA; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747584383     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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