Embryological ontogeny of aromatase gene expression in Chrysemys picta and Apalone mutica turtles: Comparative patterns within and across temperature-dependent and genotypic sex-determining mechanisms

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-62

  Valenzuela, Nicole ^a   Shikano, Takahito ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Estrogen; Evolution; Reptiles; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOTYPE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

APALONE MUTICA; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846063305     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-006-0106-3     Document Type: Article

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