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Chapter 11 Germ cells, fertilization and sex
Determination of the sexual phenotype Sex chromosomes Chapter 14— Sex determination Developmental Biology by Scott Gilbert
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The sex chromosome in humans
Mammals : Y chromosome Alligator : environmental temperature Fish: switch sex Drosophila: chromosome content Compensation of chromosomal composition Fig
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Figure 14.1 Sex determination in mammals (Part 1)
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Development of the gonads
SRY--Testes—Mullerian-inhibiting substance —suppress female reproductive organ and induce cells to be Leydig cells— secrets testosterone Sex phenotypes controlled by hormone Fig
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Figure 14.1 Sex determination in mammals (Part 2)
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Figure 14.2 Differentiation of human gonads shown in transverse section (Part 1)
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Figure 14.2 Differentiation of human gonads shown in transverse section (Part 2)
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Figure 14.2 Differentiation of human gonads shown in transverse section (Part 3)
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Figure 14.4 Possible mechanism for the initiation of primary sex determination in mammals
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Sex reversal in humans Y chromosome—embryo’s gonads
—develop into testes Single gene—sex-determining region of the Y chromosome (SRY) Klinefelter syndrome: XXY —males but infertile Turner syndrome: XO—female but no eggs XY females XX males Corssing over XX+SRY gene-infertile male Fig
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Figure 14.6 An XX mouse transgenic for Sry is male
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Figure 14.7 Ability of Sox9 to generate testes
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Figure 14.10 Model for the formation of external genitalia
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Figure 14.14 Organization of brain development by hormones
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Figure 14.15 Masculinization of the brain by hormones (Part 1)
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Figure 14.15 Masculinization of the brain by hormones (Part 2)
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Genitalia Sex comb Pigmentation Small wing XX female XY male XXY female X male Fig
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Sex determining signal--- Sex-lethal (X chromosome)
Sex-specific RNA splicing transformer doublesex Transformer-spliced + transformer 2
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Figure 14.17 Proposed regulatory cascade for Drosophila somatic sex determination (Part 1)
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Figure 14.17 Proposed regulatory cascade for Drosophila somatic sex determination (Part 2)
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Dosage compensation Barr body Xist-non-coding RNA Male specific gene
Repressed by Sxl
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Repression by autosome
2X higher numerator—binding to Pe Autoregulatory loop Post-transcriptional levels
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Figure 14.18 Sex-specific RNA splicing in four major Drosophila sex-determining genes
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Figure 14.20 Roles of DsxM and DsxF proteins in Drosophila sexual development (Part 1)
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Figure 14.20 Roles of DsxM and DsxF proteins in Drosophila sexual development (Part 2)
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Mating in fruit flies
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Figure 14.21 Subsets of neurons expressing the male-specific form of fruitless
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2006 WINNER A cluster of Fruitless-expressing neurons in the Drosophila brain has been found to differ between male and females. This difference is produced by active elimination of neuronal precursor cells in females. The male-specific Fruitless protein inhibits programmed cell death in a cluster of neurons, allowing them to form a neural circuit that directs males to court females and not males. This research shows how a single gene can direct brain development and subsequently a sex-specific behavior. In this framework, sexual orientation can be understood in relation to an identified neuronal circuit and defined actions of a sex-determination gene. This figure shows the projection pattern of sexually dimorphic mAL (medially located, just above Antennal Lobe) neurons in the brain of a female (left) and a male (right). Kimura, K.-I., Ote. M, Tazawa, T and Yamamoto, D. Fruitless specifies sexually dimorphic neural circuitry in the Drosophila brain. Nature, vol. 438, (2005).
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C. elegans Self-fertilizing-limited amount of sperm
XO lethal(xol-1)—repressed by SEX-1 on X chromosome
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Somatic sex determination pathway in C elegans
Egl-1—death of neurons associated in the hermaphrodite with egg laying
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Signals specify germ-cell sex in mammals
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Determination of germ-cell sex in the hermaphrodite gonad
Tips: germ cell multiply Meiosis--sperm Adult: proliferative zone--oocytes
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Figure 14.22 Temperature-dependent sex determination in three species of reptiles
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Figure the feminization of male frogs and the decline of frog populations in regions where atrazine has been used to control weed populations Atrasine DevBio9e-Fig R.jpg
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