Differences in genetic backgrounds affecting gonadal differentiation between two local populations of the Japanese wrinkled frog (Rana rugosa)

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-148

  Takase, Minoru ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gonochorism; Ovary; Sex chromosome; Testis; XX XY type

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FROG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; MALE; MEIOSIS; METAMORPHOSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; RANIDAE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA RUGOSA;

EID: 0031846976     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050172     Document Type: Article

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