Dmrt1 genes at the crossroads: A widespread and central class of sexual development factors in fish

FEBS Journal

Volumn 278, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1010-1019

  Herpin, Amaury ^a   Schartl, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dmrt1bY; Evolution; Gonad; Ovary; Sex determination; Sex differentiation; Steroid hormones; Teleost; Testis; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; SEX HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DOWN REGULATION; FISH GENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONAD FUNCTION; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORYZIAS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; ANURA; AVES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; ORYZIINAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 79952835078     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08030.x     Document Type: Review

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