Expression profiling of sexually dimorphic genes in the Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica
Abstract
Research on avian sex determination has focused on the chicken. In this study, we established the utility of another widely used animal model, the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), for clarifying the molecular mechanisms underlying gonadal sex differentiation. In particular, we performed comprehensive gene expression profiling of embryonic gonads at three stages (HH27, HH31 and HH38) by mRNA-seq. We classified the expression patterns of 4,815 genes into nine clusters according to ……
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Article Information:
Okuno, M., Miyamoto, S., Itoh, T. et al.
Expression profiling of sexually dimorphic genes in the Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica.
Sci Rep 10, 20073 (2020).
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77094-y
