Yongchang Wang, Junxian Zhu, Chen Chen, Liqin Ji, Xiaoyou Hong, Xiaoli Liu, Haigang Chen, Chengqing Wei, Junjie Zhang, Xinping Zhu, Wei Li
The DKK family is a canonical small family of WNT antagonists. Though recent studies have suggested that the DKK gene family may be involved in sex differentiation in Pelodiscus sinensis , there are still a lot of things about the DKK gene family that we do not know. In this study, we used bioinformatics methods to identify members of the DKK gene family in P. sinensis and analyzed their phylogeny, covariance, gene structure, structural domains, promoter conserved sites, signal peptides, gonadal transcription factors, transcriptional profiles, and tissue expression profiles...
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