Sex determination Jonathan Wolfe
Objectives At the end of this lecture you should: know in outline the developmental steps in human sex determination be able to describe the evolution of the mammalian Y chromosome and the SRY gene. be able to describe the roles of the genes SRY, DAX1, and SOX9. Be able to describe the genes involved in sex determination in Drosophila Be able to describe the gene DMRT1 and its relatives
Reading Search here for any of the genes mentioned. Goodfellow, P. N.; Lovell-Badge, R. 1993: SRY and sex determination in mammals. Ann. Rev. Genet Koopman, P.; Gubbay, J.; Vivian, N.; Goodfellow, P.; Lovell-Badge, R. 1991: Male development of chromosomally female mice transgenic for Sry. Nature Wunderle, V. M.; et al. 1998: Deletion of long-range regulatory elements upstream of SOX9 causes campomelic dysplasia. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 95: Jennifer A. Marshall Graves 2002: The rise and fall of SRY Trends in Genetics 18: David Zarkower 2001 Establishing sexual dimorphism: conservation amidst diversity? Nature Reviews Genetics Peter Koopman and Kelly A. Loffler, 2003, Sex Determination: The Fishy Tale of Dmrt1 Current Biology, 13: R177 - R179 Haag ES, Doty AV (2005) Sex Determination across Evolution: Connecting the Dots. PLoS Biol 3(1): e21
Comparison between Drosophila and Humans karyotypeDrosophilaHuman 2A XXfemale 2A XYmale 2A XOmalefemale 2A XXXfemale 2A XXYfemalemale
Gonadal differentiation
Y chromosomal genes
Genomic structure of SRY genes
Evolution of the Y chromosome and SRY
The loss of Y chromosomal genes
Sex determination in Drosophila
Another human gene
DMRT1 expression
Chicken Z = Human chr.9
DMRT1 expression in alligator