Females battle to suppress their inner male.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2009.11.036.
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Abstract
Conventional wisdom holds that the ovary and testis are terminally differentiated organs in adult mammals. However, Uhlenhaut et al. (2009) now report that deletion of a single gene, Foxl2, is sufficient to induce transdifferentiation of ovary into testis in adult mice, suggesting that testicular development is actively repressed throughout the life of females.
Medical subject headings
- Cell Transdifferentiation
- Ovary
- Testis