Multiple alternative splicing of mouse Dmrt1 during gonadal differentiation

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 352, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 630-634

  Lu, Heng ^a   Huang, Xiao ^a   Zhang, Liao ^a   Guo, Yiqing ^a   Cheng, Hanhua ^a   Zhou, Rongjia ^a  

^a Center for Cell Signaling Network   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; DM domain; Mouse; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DMRT1 GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL AGENESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33845321770     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.11.066     Document Type: Article

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