Germ cells are not the primary factor for sexual fate determination in goldfish

Developmental Biology

Volumn 370, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-109

  Goto, Rie ^a,b   Saito, Taiju ^a   Takeda, Takahiro ^a   Fujimoto, Takafumi ^a   Takagi, Misae ^a   Arai, Katsutoshi ^a   Yamaha, Etsuto ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonadal fate determination; Primordial germ cells; Sex differentiation; SPT; Teleost; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

AMH GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROMATASE GENE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LABELING; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP19A1 GENE; DND GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOXL2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; GOLDFISH; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOMATIC CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

CARASSIUS AURATUS; DANIO RERIO; ORYZIINAE; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865651493     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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