Differential incubation temperatures result in dimorphic DNA methylation patterning of the SOX9 and aromatase promoters in gonads of alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Parrott, Benjamin B ^a   Kohno, Satomi ^a   Cloy McCoy, Jessica A ^a   Guillette Jr , Louis J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alligator; Aromatase; DNA methylation; Sex determination; SOX9; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; GENOMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GONAD; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DETERMINATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ALLIGATOR; AROMATASE; DNA METHYLATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SOX9; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT SEX DETERMINATION;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADS; INCUBATORS; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84899942485     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.111468     Document Type: Article

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