Genetic and molecular insights into the development and evolution of sexual dimorphism Export

@article{citeulike:5971656, abstract = {Sexual dimorphism is common throughout the animal kingdom. However, a molecular understanding of how sex-specific traits develop and evolve has been elusive. Recently, substantial progress has been made in elucidating how diverse sex-determination systems are integrated into developmental gene networks. One common theme from these studies is that sex-limited traits and gene expression are produced by the combined action of transcriptional effectors of sex-determination pathways and other transcription factors on target gene cis-regulatory elements. Sex-specific traits evolve by the gain, loss or modification of linkages in the genetic networks regulated by sex-determination transcription factors.}, author = {Williams, Thomas M. and Carroll, Sean B.}, citeulike-article-id = {5971656}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2687}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2687}, day = {01}, doi = {10.1038/nrg2687}, issn = {1471-0056}, journal = {Nature Reviews Genetics}, keywords = {evo\_devo}, month = {November}, number = {11}, pages = {797--804}, posted-at = {2009-10-19 18:04:33}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Genetic and molecular insights into the development and evolution of sexual dimorphism}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2687}, volume = {10}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5971656 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5971656 N2 - Sexual dimorphism is common throughout the animal kingdom. However, a molecular understanding of how sex-specific traits develop and evolve has been elusive. Recently, substantial progress has been made in elucidating how diverse sex-determination systems are integrated into developmental gene networks. One common theme from these studies is that sex-limited traits and gene expression are produced by the combined action of transcriptional effectors of sex-determination pathways and other transcription factors on target gene cis-regulatory elements. Sex-specific traits evolve by the gain, loss or modification of linkages in the genetic networks regulated by sex-determination transcription factors. IS - 11 JF - Nature Reviews Genetics SN - 1471-0056 EP - 804 TI - Genetic and molecular insights into the development and evolution of sexual dimorphism PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 10 SP - 797 KW - evo_devo AU - Williams, Thomas AU - Carroll, Sean PY - 2009/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2687 ER -