High-throughput sequencing analyses of XX genital ridges lacking FOXL2 reveal DMRT1 up-regulation before SOX9 expression during the sex-reversal process in goats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Elzaiat, Maëva ^a   Jouneau, Luc ^a   Thépot, Dominique ^a   Klopp, Christophe ^b   Allais Bonnet, Aurélie ^a   Cabau, Cédric ^c   André, Marjolaine ^a   Chaffaux, Stéphane ^d   Cribiu, Edmond Paul ^d   Pailhoux, Eric ^a   Pannetier, Maëlle ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UMR1388 GenPhySE   (France)

^d UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Comparative genetics; DMRT1; FOXL2; Goat; RNA sequencing; Sex determination; XX sex reversal

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DMRT1 GENE; FEMALE; FETUS; FOXL2 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOTYPE; GOAT; GONAD; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; NONHUMAN; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SRY GENE; TESTIS;

CAPRA HIRCUS; MUS;

EID: 84930404316     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.122796     Document Type: Article

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