Antagonistic roles of Dmrt1 and Foxl2 in sex differentiation via estrogen production in tilapia as demonstrated by TALENs

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4814-4825

  Li, Ming Hui ^a   Yang, Hui Hui ^a   Li, Meng Ru ^a   Sun, Yun Lv ^a   Jiang, Xiao Long ^a   Xie, Qing Ping ^a   Wang, Ting Ru ^a   Shi, Hong Juan ^a   Sun, Li Na ^a   Zhou, Lin Yan ^a   Wang, De Shou ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 OXOTESTOSTERONE; ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; DMRT 1 PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; FOXL 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DMRT1 PROTEIN; ESTROGEN; FISH PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDEL MUTATION; INTRON; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; MALE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TILAPIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESTROGENS; FISH PROTEINS; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TILAPIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84888213906     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1451     Document Type: Article

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