Sex determination and SRY: down to a wink and a nudge?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-29

  Sekido, Ryohei ^a   Lovell Badge, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENES, SRY; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58149333236     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2008.10.008     Document Type: Review

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