A highly conserved cis-regulatory motif directs differential gonadal synexpression of Dmrt1 transcripts during gonad development

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1510-1520

  Herpin, Amaury ^a   Nakamura, Shuhei ^b   Wagner, Toni U ^a   Tanaka, Minoru ^b   Schartl, Manfred ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DSX AND MAB3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FISH GENETICS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 63249095973     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn1065     Document Type: Article

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