An unbiased approach to identify genes involved in development in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chojnowski, Jena L ^a,b   Braun, Edward L ^b  

^a Coverdell Center ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GELATINASE A; MESSENGER RNA; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C16ORF62 GENE; CCT3 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALAT1 GENE; MALE; MMP2 GENE; NFIB GENE; NONHUMAN; NOTCH2 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RED EARED SLIDER TURTLE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866175187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-308     Document Type: Article

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