Environmental sex determination in the branchiopod crustacean Daphnia magna: Deep conservation of a Doublesex gene in the sex-determining pathway

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kato, Yasuhiko ^a   Kobayashi, Kaoru ^b,c   Watanabe, Hajime ^a   Iguchi, Taisen ^b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c The Graduate School for Advanced Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLESEX 1 PROTEIN; DOUBLESEX 2 PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC GAIN; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOPODA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DAPHNIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ORDER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

EID: 79953741266     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001345     Document Type: Article

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