Molecular evolution of vertebrate sex-determining genes

Chromosome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 139-151

  Mawaribuchi, Shuuji ^a   Yoshimoto, Shin ^a   Ohashi, Shuntaro ^a   Takamatsu, Nobuhiko ^a   Ito, Michihiko ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dmrt1; neofunctionalization; noncoding exon; promoter; Sex determination; Sry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DMRT1 GENE; DMY GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SOX3 GENE; SRY GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; HMG-BOX DOMAINS; INTRONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VERTEBRATES;

EUTHERIA; ORYZIINAE; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84857373336     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-011-9265-9     Document Type: Article

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