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P450 aromatase expression in the temperature-sensitive sexual differentiation of salamander (Hynobius retardatus) gonads.
The International journal of developmental biology - 1 Jan 2005
Sakata Natsuko, Tamori Yoichiro, Wakahara Masami
Abstract excerpt
Sex differentiation of gonads in amphibians is believed to be controlled genetically, but altered epigenetically or environmentally. When larvae of the salamander Hynobius retardatus were reared at defined temperatures from hatching to metamorphic stages, a high temperature (28 degrees C) induced...
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