Comparative aspects of gonadal sex differentiation in medaka: A conserved role of developing oocytes in sexual canalization

Sexual Development

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 99-107

  Saito, D ^a,b   Tanaka, M ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ cells; Gonadal development; Oogenesis; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE;

DMRT1BY GENE; GENE; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORYZIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELEOST; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; GONADS; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; OOCYTES; ORYZIAS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; ORYZIINAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 69249138803     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000223075     Document Type: Review

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