Four Core Genotypes mouse model: Localization of the Sry transgene and bioassay for testicular hormone levels

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Itoh, Yuichiro ^a   Mackie, Ryan ^a   Kampf, Kathy ^a   Domadia, Shelly ^a   Brown, Judith D ^b   O'Neill, Rachel ^b   Arnold, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Anogenital distance; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Four core genotypes; Integration site; Inverted PCR; Mouse; Sex chromosome; Sry; Transgene; Vectorette PCR

Indexed keywords

MUS;

ANDROGEN;

ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SRY GENE; TESTIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, SRY; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTIS; TRANSGENES; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84924965424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-0986-2     Document Type: Article

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