Physiological sex predicts hybrid sterility regardless of genotype

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5859, 2008, Pages 59-

  Malone, John H ^a,b   Michalak, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HYBRID; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX REVERSAL; STERILITY;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; INFERTILITY; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 37849042593     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1148231     Document Type: Article

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9. This work was conducted following the protocols of the University of Texas-Arlington Animal Care Committee (protocol no. A05.001). We thank R. C. Tinsley for donating X. muelleri; M. Ito for W chromosome marker primer sequences; and J.Malcom, D. C. Forsdyke, and anonymous reviewers for comments. Funded by an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (DEB-0508882) and a Texas Academy of Science Student Research Grant to J.H.M. and a SPRING Research and Nanotechnology Transfer Program Strategic Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology Grant (26-0201-31) to P.M. Microarray data have been deposited in Gene Expression Omnibus, accession GSE9507.