To establish the gene expression profile and cascade subsequently on avian sex-determining candidate genes, seven avian sex-determining candidate genes including DMRT1, FET1, FOXL2, LHX9, HINT1, SMC2L1 and SOX9 were analyzed at early embryogenesis. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR (Quantitative RT-PCR) technology was used to establish the gene expression profiles among these genes at four, five, six and seven days of embryos. The results of quantitative RT-PCR reveal that the DMRT1 was expressed in chicken embryos of both sexes. DMRT1 gene expressions were up-regulated at four, five and six days of chicken embryos. DMRT1 expression increased at 5-Dpc. of male embryos, however, expression was not signification different in females embryos. Gene expression of FET1, FOXL2, LHX9 and HINT1 were higher in females than in males. The SMC2L1 and SOX9 were expressed in both sexes. Also, to identify the novel sex-determination genes in early chicken subtractive embryos, cDNA libraries from male-minus-female and female-minus-male 3.5 Dpc. embryos cDNA were established. Gene annotation was carried out by data-mining in public databases, GeneBank (NCBI, USA) and TIGR gene indices (The Institute for Genome Research, USA). A total 548 of colonies in male-minus-female library and 79 sequences were annotated. However, a total of 589 of colonies in female-minus-male library and 16 sequences were annotated. Sequences were homologous to the steroid 5£\-reductase protein (SRD5A1) using BLASTx in male-minus-female subtractive library. The SRD5A1 may play a sex-differentiation role in male chicken. We need more study to know function of steroid 5£\-reductase protein in future.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0715104-172315 |
| Date | 15 July 2004 |
| Creators | Tsai, Hsin-yin |
| Contributors | Yen-pei Lee, Chin Tai, Yow-ling Shine |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0715104-172315 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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