Regulatory putsches create new ways of determining sexual development

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 966-968

  Herpin, Amaury ^a   Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 53249134443     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.182     Document Type: Article

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