Molecular mechanisms of sex determination and evolution of the Y-chromosome: Insights from the medakafish (Oryzias latipes)

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 306, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 51-58

  Herpin, Amaury ^a   Schartl, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dmrt1bY; Doublesex; Evolution; Medaka; Sex determination; X chromosome; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; CELL PROLIFERATION; DMRT1BY GENE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 67349132364     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.02.004     Document Type: Review

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