Different sox17 transcripts during sex differentiation in sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 240-251

  Navarro Martín, Laia ^a   Galay Burgos, Malyka ^b   Sweeney, Glen ^b   Piferrer, Francesc ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Development; Gonadal differentiation; Sea bass; sox17

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN SEA BASS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE STRUCTURE; GONAD; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SKIN; SOX17 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BASS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOXF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 58649100455     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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