Sex difference in target seeking behavior of developing cremaster muscles and the resulting first visible sign of somatic sexual differentiation in marsupial mammals

Anatomical Record

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 130-141

  Van Der Schoot, P ^b   Payne, A P ^a   Kersten, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cremaster muscles; Embryology; Genitalia development; Marsupials; Sexual differentiation; Spermatic cord

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CREMASTER MUSCLE; FEMALE; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATIC CORD; TUNICA VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OPOSSUMS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPERMATIC CORD;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033152261     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(19990601)255:2<130::AID-AR3>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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