BIO 3147 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Flow Cytometry, Limb Development, Wnt4
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Sry (on the y) trigger to turn on sox 9 (autosomal) Germ cells sitting in the basket of somatic cells. Masculinized male finch have a strong song centre in brain hvc. In the rat thing, estrogen drives male behaviour, knock out the thing that binds to estrogen in female. Aside is maternal mom grooms pup at low freq, highly methylated low er-alpha expression. Atrazine pesticide in small amount can effect testes formation in utero. Human effects too --> farmers have lower sperm count. Sarnia next to industrial place --> disappearing male documentary. Sex selection involves tried-and-true technology (nearly 100% accurate) Wives tale of what to do for male female. Y chromosome smaller than x, sperm slightly lighter. Preference for boys and girls in children also dependent on first child, second child etc. Take the signalling of the bird arm transplant into human --> make human arm. The "free limb" is primarily responsible for the limb development.
