Sexual dimorphism of gonadal structure and gene expression in germ cell-deficient loach, a teleost fish

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 17211-17216

  Fujimoto, Takafumi ^a   Nishimura, Toshiya ^a,b   Goto Kazeto, Rie ^a   Kawakami, Yutaka ^a   Yamaha, Etsuro ^a   Arai, Katsutoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dead end; Gonadal development; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MORPHOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CYPRINIFORMES; DEAD END GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; KNOCKOUT GENE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES; TELEOST; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYPRINIFORMES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GONADS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

COBITIDAE; CYPRINIFORMES; MISGURNUS ANGUILLICAUDATUS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 78049241460     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007032107     Document Type: Article

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