Mapping platypus SOX genes; autosomal location of SOX9 excludes it from sex determining role

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 232-234

  Wallis, M C ^a   Delbridge, M L ^a   Pask, A J ^b   Alsop, A E ^a   Grutzner F ^c   O'Brien, P C M ^d   Rens, W ^d   Ferguson Smith, M A ^d   Graves, J A M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 21; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLATYPUS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 33847398323     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098192     Document Type: Article

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