Timing sexual differentiation: Full functional sex reversal achieved through silencing of a single insulin-like gene in the prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ventura, Tomer ^a   Manor, Rivka ^a   Aflalo, Eliahu D ^a   Weil, Simy ^a   Rosen, Ohad ^a   Sagi, Amir ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Insulin like androgenic gland hormone; Invertebrates; Sex differentiation; Sexual manipulation biotechnology

Indexed keywords

ANDROGENIC GLAND SPECIFIC INSULIN LIKE FACTOR; RELAXIN LIKE FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; FEMALE; FRESHWATER SPECIES; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; MACROBRACHIUM ROSENBERGII; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; OVARY; PALAEMONIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS; TIME;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; MACROBRACHIUM ROSENBERGII;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; OVARY; PALAEMONIDAE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860634069     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.097261     Document Type: Article

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