Identification of sperm-bearing female-specific chromosome in the sex-reversed chicken

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-72

  Abinawanto, ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Saito, N ^a   Matsuda, Y ^a   Shimada, K ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; DNA; FADROZOLE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; INJECTION; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; DNA; FADROZOLE; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INJECTIONS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031962709     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19980101)280:1<65::AID-JEZ8>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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