Multiple alternative splicing in gonads of chicken DMRT1

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-126

  Zhao, Yang ^a   Lu, Heng ^a   Yu, Hongshi ^a   Cheng, Hanhua ^a   Zhou, Rongjia ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Chicken; Double sex; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1A; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1B; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1C; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1D; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1E; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1F; ISOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GONAD; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33846799289     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-006-0117-0     Document Type: Article

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