
Sex Determination in Vertebrates
Description
Key Features
- Contains reviews written by leading experts in each field
- Includes informative figures that illustrate principle points that are useful for teaching
- Written in a style that is clear and simple
Readership
Scientists interested in molecular mechanisms of fate specification; reproductive biologists interested in how the sexes are established
Table of Contents
1. Evolution and meiotic organization of heteromorphic sex chromosomes
Tasman Daish and Frank Grützner
2. Environmental regulation of sex determination in fishes: Insights from atheriniformes
Yoji Yamamoto, Ricardo S. Hattori, Reynaldo Patiño and Carlos A. Strüssmann
3. Natural sex change in fish
Neil J. Gemmell, Erica V. Todd, Alexander Goikoetxea, Oscar Ortega-Recalde and Timothy A. Hore
4. Genetic regulation of sex determination and maintenance in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Michelle E. Kossack and Bruce W. Draper
5. Regulation of germ cell sex identity in medaka
Minoru Tanaka
6. Characterizing the bipotential mammalian gonad
Serge Nef, Isabelle Stévant and Andy Greenfield
7. Role of epigenetic regulation in mammalian sex determination
Shingo Miyawaki and Makoto Tachibana
8. The regulation of Sox9 expression in the gonad
Nitzan Gonen and Robin Lovell-Badge
9. Sexually dimorphic germ cell identity in mammals
Cassy Spiller and Josephine Bowles
10. Rethinking sex determination of non-gonadal tissues
Arthur P. Arnold
11. Translating genomics to the clinical diagnosis of disorders/differences of sex development
Abhinav Parivesh, Hayk Barseghyan, Emmanuèle Délot and Eric Vilain
Product details
- No. of pages: 394
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: April 16, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128115442
- eBook ISBN: 9780128115046
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Blanche Capel
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