DM Domain Genes: Sexual and somatic development during vertebrate embryogenesis
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DMRT1/Dmrt1, the sex determining or sex differentiating gene in Vertebrata.
Although the phenomenon of sexual dimorphism is widespread in vertebrates, the molecular mechanism of sex-determination is not the same across animal phyla, in contrast to other areas of developmental biology. Recent extensive studies, however, have given proof of evolutionarily conserved function in genes which share a novel DNA binding DM domain, primarily identified in two invertebrate sex r...
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