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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2014

The mechanisms underlying sexual differentiation of behavior and physiology in mammals and birds: relative contributions of sex steroids and sex chromosomes.

Fumihiko Maekawa, Shinji Tsukahara, Takaharu Kawashima, Keiko Nohara, Hiroko Ohki-Hamazaki

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fumihiko MaekawaMolecular Toxicology Section, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute for Environmental Studies Tsukuba, Japan.
Shinji TsukaharaDivision of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University Saitama, Japan.
Takaharu KawashimaEcological Genetics Research Section, Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies Tsukuba, Japan.
Keiko NoharaMolecular Toxicology Section, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute for Environmental Studies Tsukuba, Japan.
Hiroko Ohki-HamazakiCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kitasato University Sagamihara, Japan.
Kitasato University · JPSaitama University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

From a classical viewpoint, sex-specific behavior and physiological functions as well as the brain structures of mammals such as rats and mice, have been thought to be influenced by perinatal sex steroids secreted by the gonads. Sex steroids have also been thought to affect the differentiation of the sex-typical behavior of a few members of the avian order Galliformes, including the Japanese quail and chickens, during their development in ovo. However, recent mammalian studies that focused on the artificial shuffling or knockout of the sex-determining gene, Sry, have revealed that sex chromosomal effects may be associated with particular types of sex-linked differences such as aggression levels, social interaction, and autoimmune diseases, independently of sex steroid-mediated effects. In addition, studies on naturally occurring, rare phenomena such as gynandromorphic birds and experimentally constructed chimeras in which the composition of sex chromosomes in the brain differs from that in the other parts of the body, indicated that sex chromosomes play certain direct roles in the sex-specific differentiation of the gonads and the brain. In this article, we review the relative contributions of sex steroids and sex chromosomes in the determination of brain functions related to sexual behavior and reproductive physiology in mammals and birds.

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birdschimeraneurosteroidsrodentssexual differentiation of the brain

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