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A Y-linked anti-Müllerian hormone duplication takes over a critical role in sex determination.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Feb 2012
Hattori Ricardo S, Murai Yu, Oura Miho, Masuda Shuji, Majhi Sullip K, Sakamoto Takashi, Fernandino Juan I, Somoza Gustavo M, Yokota Masashi, Strüssmann Carlos A
Abstract excerpt
Gonadal sex determination in vertebrates generally follows a sequence of genetically programmed events. In what is seemingly becoming a pattern, all confirmed or current candidate "master" sex-determining genes reported in this group, e.g., SRY in eutherian mammals, DMY/dmrt1bY in medaka, DM-W in the African clawed frog, and DMRT1 in chicken encode transcription factors. In contrast, here we show that a...
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