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Vertebrate sex determination: a new player in the field
1Section of Gene Function and Regulation, Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, London SW3 6JB, UK. aswain@icr.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|September 13, 2002
Abstract:
Sex-determining genes have been identified in flies, worms and mammals but not, until recently, in non-mammalian vertebrates. Now, a gene has been isolated from the Y chromosome of the teleost fish medaka that is functionally comparable to the mammalian testis-determining gene, Sry.