Differentiation of female chicken primordial germ cells into spermatozoa in male gonads

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 267-271

  Tagami, Takahiro ^a   Matsubara, Yuko ^a   Hanada, Hirofumi ^a   Naito, Mitsuru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Chimera; Primordial germ cells; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHIMERA; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0030914255     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.t01-2-00002.x     Document Type: Article

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