Transitions between sex-determining systems in reptiles and amphibians

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages 391-406

  Sarre, Stephen D ^a   Ezaz, Tariq ^a   Georges, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genetic sex determination; Male and female heterogamety; Sex chromosomes; Temperature dependent sex determination; Thermosensitivity; Threshold trait

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA BINDING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENDER BIAS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GENOTYPIC SEX DETERMINATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MARSUPIAL; MICROCHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SRY GENE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSPOSON;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPTILES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

AMPHIBIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052742726     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: 1545293X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082410-101518     Document Type: Article

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