Effects of embryonic treatment with fadrozole on phenotype of gonads, syrinx, and neural song system in zebra finches

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 346-353

  Gong, Anson ^a   Freking, Fred W ^a   Wingfield, John ^b   Schlinger, Barney A ^a   Arnold, Arthur P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Bird song; Estrogen; Fadrozole; Sexual differentiation; Syrinx

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; FADROZOLE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LARYNX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TELENCEPHALON; VIRILIZATION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0032828266     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7318     Document Type: Article

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