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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Miguel Burgos
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-2252 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Real Francisca M FM Sekido Ryohei R Lupiáñez Darío G DG Lovell-Badge Robin R Jiménez Rafael R Burgos Miguel M
Biology of reproduction 20131004 4
In mammals, sex differentiation depends on gonad development, which is controlled by two groups of sex-determining genes that promote one gonadal sex and antagonize the opposite one. SOX9 plays a key role during testis development in all studied vertebrates, whereas it is kept inactive in the XX gonad at the critical time of sex determination, otherwise, ovary-to-testis gonadal sex reversal occurs. However, molecular mechanisms underlying repression of Sox9 at the beginning of ovarian developmen ...[more]