Establishing sexual dimorphism: conservation amidst diversity?
The molecular mechanisms that control sexual dimorphism are very different in distantly related animals. Did sex determination arise several times with different regulatory mechanisms, or is it an ancient process with little surviving evidence of ancestral genes? The recent identification of related sexual regulators in different phyla indicates that some aspects of sexual regulation might be ancient. Studies of sex-determining mechanisms are beginning to reveal how sexual dimorphism arises and evolves.
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Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. zarkower@gene.med.umn.edu
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D020732:Cytogenetic Analysis; D004175:Diptera; D018628:Gene Dosage; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012730:Sex Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics*; D012732:Sex Determination Analysis; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014714:Vertebrates
D012097:Repressor Proteins