Long and winding roads: Testis differentiation in zebrafish

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 35-41

  Orban, Laszlo ^a,b   Sreenivasan, Rajini ^a   Olsson, Per Erik ^c  

^a Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cyprinid; Gonad transformation; Gonadal transcriptome; Hormonal sex reversal; Juvenile hermaphroditism; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FISH GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GONADS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TESTIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 70249146482     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2009.04.014     Document Type: Review

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