Predetermination of sexual fate in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination

Developmental Biology

Volumn 386, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 264-271

  Mork, Lindsey ^a,b   Czerwinski, Michael ^a   Capel, Blanche ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonad; Temperature dependent sex determination; Turtle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TURTLE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; OVARY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL FATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT SEX DETERMINATION; TESTIS; ZYGOTE;

REPTILIA; SPONDIAS PURPUREA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA;

GONAD; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT SEX DETERMINATION; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; OVARY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; TURTLES;

HORMONE;

EID: 84892479013     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.11.026     Document Type: Article

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