Essential functions of androgen signaling emerged through the developmental analysis of vertebrate sex characteristics

Evolution and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 315-325

  Ogino, Yukiko ^a,b,c   Miyagawa, Shinichi ^b,c   Katoh, Hironori ^a   Prins, Gail S ^d   Iguchi, Taisen ^b,c   Yamada, Gen ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BETA CATENIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; WNT PROTEIN;

ANDROGEN; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COMMON ANCESTRY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; MASCULINIZATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENITAL SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; GENITALIA; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATES; WNT PROTEINS;

CHONDRICHTHYES; ERINACEIDAE; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); MUS; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955508644     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00482.x     Document Type: Article

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