Novel sex-determining genes in fish and sex chromosome evolution

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 242, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 339-353

  Kikuchi, Kiyoshi ^a   Hamaguchi, Satoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sex determination; Teleost fish; TGF ; Turnover of sex chromosomes

Indexed keywords

AMH PROTEIN; AMHR2 PROTEIN; DMRT1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; FISH; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FISHES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMEGMAMORPHA; TAKIFUGU; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AVES; MAMMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ORYZIAS LUZONENSIS; ORYZIINAE; PISCES; TAKIFUGU; TELEOSTEI; THERIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84875492131     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.23927     Document Type: Article

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