Cell fate commitment during mammalian sex determination

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 144-152

  Lin, Yi Tzu ^a   Capel, Blanche ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; GONAD; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANOGENESIS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84926287603     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2015.03.003     Document Type: Review

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