AUTHOR=Casado-Navarro Rafael , Serrano-Saiz Esther 

TITLE=DMRT Transcription Factors in the Control of Nervous System Sexual Differentiation

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

VOLUME=16

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroanatomy/articles/10.3389/fnana.2022.937596

DOI=10.3389/fnana.2022.937596

ISSN=1662-5129

ABSTRACT=<p>Sexual phenotypic differences in the nervous system are one of the most prevalent features across the animal kingdom. The molecular mechanisms responsible for sexual dimorphism throughout metazoan nervous systems are extremely diverse, ranging from intrinsic cell autonomous mechanisms to gonad-dependent endocrine control of sexual traits, or even extrinsic environmental cues. In recent years, the DMRT ancient family of transcription factors has emerged as being central in the development of sex-specific differentiation in all animals in which they have been studied. In this review, we provide an overview of the function of <italic>Dmrt</italic> genes in nervous system sexual regulation from an evolutionary perspective.</p>