Plasticity of gene-regulatory networks controlling sex determination: Of masters, slaves, usual suspects, newcomers, and usurpators

EMBO Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1260-1274

  Herpin, Amaury ^a,b   Schartl, Manfred ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Campus de Beaulieu   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dmrt1; ovary; SRY; testis; transcription factor

Indexed keywords

PIWI INTERACTING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BOMBYX MORI; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HONEYBEE; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SRY GENE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MALE; OVARY; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84942836231     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201540667     Document Type: Review

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