Retinoic Acid Metabolic Genes, Meiosis, and Gonadal Sex Differentiation in Zebrafish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Rodríguez Marí, Adriana ^a,b,c   Cañestro, Cristian ^b   BreMiller, Ruth A ^a   Catchen, Julian M ^a   Yan, Yi Lin ^a   Postlethwait, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 26A1; RETINOIC ACID;

ALDH1A2 GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP26A1 GENE; CYP26B1 GENE; DEAD END GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MESONEPHROS; METABOLIC GENE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PARALOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POU5F1 GENE; PREDICTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYCP3 GENE; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; SYNTENY; TELEOST; TESTIS; TETRAPOD; UPREGULATION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GONADS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; RETINAL DEHYDROGENASE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRETINOIN; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84883789923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073951     Document Type: Article

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