Response of candidate sex-determining genes to changes in temperature reveals their involvement in the molecular network underlying temperature-dependent sex determination

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2750-2763

  Shoemaker, Christina M ^a   Queen, Joanna ^a   Crews, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Patterson Labs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; WNT4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TURTLE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OVARY; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TURTLES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35649009421     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2007-0263     Document Type: Article

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