Regulation and expression of sexual differentiation factors in embryonic and extragonadal tissues of Atlantic salmon

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  von Schalburg, Kristian R ^a   Yasuike, Motoshige ^a   Yazawa, Ryosuke ^b   de Boer, Johan G ^a   Reid, Linda ^a   So, Stacy ^a   Robb, Adrienne ^a   Rondeau, Eric B ^a   Phillips, Ruth B ^c   Davidson, William S ^d   Koop, Ben F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYP19A GENE; CYP19B1 GENE; DAX1 GENE; DAX2 GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FISH GENETICS; FOXL2B GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MIS GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SF1 GENE; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMO SALAR; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMO SALAR; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 78651263925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-31     Document Type: Article

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