Sry and SoxE genes: How they participate in mammalian sex determination and gonadal development?

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2017, Pages 13-22

  She, Zhen Yu ^a   Yang, Wan Xi ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gonadal development; Sertoli cell; Sex determination; Sox9; SoxE genes; Sry

Indexed keywords

TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANGIOGENESIS; BETA CATENIN GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOXL2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE STRUCTURE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; RSPO1 GENE; SEX DETERMINATION; SOX9 GENE; SOXE GENE; SRY GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; WNT4 GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GONAD; METABOLISM; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; GONADS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; SOXE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84997787401     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2016.07.032     Document Type: Review

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