Recent Advances of Mammalian SRY

Despite more than ten years since the discovery of the Sex-determining Region gene on the Y chromosome(SRY),little is known about how SRY control the bipotential embryonic gonad to develop into a testis.Studies of the past more than ten years give more information of SRY.This review describes our current knowledge of SRY and SRY protein and gonadal expression of SRY.