Identification and expression of a factor of the DM family in the oyster Crassostrea gigas

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-196

  Naimi, Amine ^a   Martinez, Anne Sophie ^a   Specq, Marie Laure ^a   Mrac, Abdellah ^a   Diss, Blandine ^b   Mathieu, Michel ^a   Sourdaine, Pascal ^a  

^a Biology and Innovative Therapeutics for Ovarian Cancers group   (France)

^b Société Atlantique de Mariculture SATMAR   (France)

Author keywords

Crassostrea gigas; Dmrt1; Dmrt4; Dmrt5; Oyster; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DMRT4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DMRT5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GONAD; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; OYSTER; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 57649118739     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.09.019     Document Type: Article

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