Females of four mole species of genus Talpa (Insectivora, mammalia) are true hermaphrodites with ovotestes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 289-294

  Sánchez, Antonio ^b   Bullejos, Mónica ^a   Burgos, Miguel ^a   Hera, Concepción ^c   Stamatopoulos, Costas ^d   Díaz De La Guardia, Rafael ^e   Jiménez, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Mammalian sex determination; Ovotestis; Sex reversal; SRY; Talpa; True hermaphroditism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TESTIS; TRUE HERMAPHRODITISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; INSECTIVORA; MAMMALIA; TALPA; TALPA EUROPAEA; TALPA OCCIDENTALIS; TALPA ROMANA;

EID: 0029742707     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199607)44:3<289::AID-MRD2>3.3.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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