The mechanism of sex determination in vertebrates-are sex steroids the key-factor?

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 313 A, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 381-398

  Nakamura, Masahisa ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GONAD; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATE; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; MALE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATES; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954682468     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.616     Document Type: Review

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