Steroidogenic enzyme gene expression in the brain of the parthenogenetic whiptail lizard, Cnemidophorus uniparens

Brain Research

Volumn 1253, Issue , 2009, Pages 129-138

  Dias, Brian George ^a   Chin, Sonia Grace ^a   Crews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen; Estrogen; Sexual behavior; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450 17;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CNEMIDOPHORUS UNIPARENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIZARD; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CYCLE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FINCHES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIZARDS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVULATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA; ASPIDOSCELIS UNIPARENS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TEIIDAE;

EID: 58249133225     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.11.071     Document Type: Article

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