Akodon sex reversed females: The never ending story

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 60-65

  Bianchi, N O ^a  

^a Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Celular   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; C BANDING; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CHROMOSOME XP; CHROMOSOME XQ; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SRY GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MURIDAE; Y CHROMOSOME;

AKODON; AKODON AZARAE; AKODON MOLLIS; HOMO;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MURIDAE; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036049330     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063029     Document Type: Article

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