FOXL2 versus SOX9: A lifelong "battle of the sexes"

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 375-380

  Veitia, Reiner A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

FOXL2; Ovarian maintenance; Ovary determination

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXL2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SRY GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARY; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77951728144     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900193     Document Type: Review

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