Nucleolar size and shape is sexually dimorphic in neurons of the lateral magnocellular nucleus of the anterior neostriatum (LMAN) in birds

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 77-86

  Nixdorf Bergweiler, B E ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FEMALE; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0030942968     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000134520     Document Type: Article

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