X-linked sex-reversing genes

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 80, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 222-225

  Wachtel, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME XP; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHERITANCE; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; MYOPUS SCHISTICOLOR;

EID: 0031821972     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000014984     Document Type: Short Survey

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