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The marsupial male: a role model for sexual development.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Nov 1995
Renfree M B, Harry J L, Shaw G
Abstract excerpt
Sexual differentiation in male marsupials has many similarities with that of eutherians. Marsupials have an XX-XY sex determining mechanism, and have a homologue of the testis-determining SRY gene on their Y-chromosome. However, the development pattern of SRY gene expression is different from the mouse in that it is expressed for a much longer period. SRY is expressed in a range of non-gonadal tissues in male...
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