Vertebrate sex determination: a new player in the field |
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Authors: | Swain Amanda |
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Institution: | Section of Gene Function and Regulation, Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, London SW3 6JB, UK. aswain@icr.ac.uk |
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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. |
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