A microarray analysis of sex- and gonad-biased gene expression in the zebrafish: Evidence for masculinization of the transcriptome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Small, Clayton M ^a   Carney, Ginger E ^a   Mo, Qianxing ^a,c   Vannucci, Marina ^b   Jones, Adam G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; UPREGULATION; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OVARY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 73449100132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-579     Document Type: Article

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