Identification of candidate gonadal sex differentiation genes in the chicken embryo using RNA-seq.

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Published in BMC Genomics on September 16, 2015

Authors

Katie L Ayers1,2, Luke S Lambeth3, Nadia M Davidson4, Andrew H Sinclair5,6, Alicia Oshlack7, Craig A Smith8

Author Affiliations

1: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, 3052, Parkville, VIC, Australia. katie.ayers@mcri.edu.au.
2: Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia. katie.ayers@mcri.edu.au.
3: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, 3052, Parkville, VIC, Australia. luke.lambeth@mcri.edu.au.
4: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, 3052, Parkville, VIC, Australia. nadia.davidson@mcri.edu.au.
5: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, 3052, Parkville, VIC, Australia. andrew.sinclair@mcri.edu.au.
6: Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia. andrew.sinclair@mcri.edu.au.
7: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, 3052, Parkville, VIC, Australia. alicia.oshlack@mcri.edu.au.
8: Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia. craig.smith@monash.edu.

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