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DMY gene induces male development in genetically female (XX) medaka fish.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Mar 2007
Matsuda Masaru, Shinomiya Ai, Kinoshita Masato, Suzuki Aya, Kobayashi Tohru, Paul-Prasanth Bindhu, Lau En-lieng, Hamaguchi Satoshi, Sakaizumi Mitsuru, Nagahama Yoshitaka
Abstract excerpt
Although the sex-determining gene SRY/Sry has been identified in mammals, homologues and genes that have a similar function have yet to be identified in nonmammalian vertebrates. Recently, DMY (the DM-domain gene on the Y chromosome) was cloned from the sex-determining region on the Y chromosome of the teleost fish medaka (Oryzias latipes). DMY has been shown to be required for the normal development of male...
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