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The Transgenic Mouse in Studies of Mammalian Sexual Differentiation

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Transgenics in Endocrinology

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Throughout history, the subject of sex has held an inherent fascination. The musings of Aristotle on the role of “an infinitesimally minute but essential organ” in determining whether “the animal will in one case turn to male (or) in the other to female” (Aristotle, Historia Animalium),offer an early insight into what has become one of the tenets in our understanding of sexual differentiation in mammals: that the sex of the gonad determines the sexual development of the individual.

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    Martin M. Matzuk MD, PhD

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Whitworth, D.J., Behringer, R.R. (2001). The Transgenic Mouse in Studies of Mammalian Sexual Differentiation. In: Matzuk, M.M., Brown, C.W., Kumar, T.R. (eds) Transgenics in Endocrinology. Contemporary Endocrinology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-102-2_2

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