Temperature sex reversal implies sex gene dosage in a reptile

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5823, 2007, Pages 411-

  Quinn, Alexander E ^a   Georges, Arthur ^a   Sarre, Stephen D ^a   Guarino, Fiorenzo ^a   Ezaz, Tariq ^b   Graves, Jennifer A Marshall ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; REPTILE; SEX REVERSAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL CELL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE DOSAGE; GENOTYPE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TEMPERATURE;

REPTILIA;

EID: 34247507591     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135925     Document Type: Short Survey

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8. Supported by an Australian Research Council grant to S.D.S., A.G., and J.A.M.G. Experiments approved by the University of Canberra Committee for Ethics in Animal Experimentation.