The marsupial model for male phenotypic development

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 78-83

  Wilson, Jean D ^a   Shaw, Geoffrey ^b   Leihy, Michael L ^b   Renfree, Marilyn B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANEDIOL; ANDROSTANOLONE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MARSUPIAL; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; EPIDIDYMIS; NONHUMAN; PENIS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; UROGENITAL SINUS; VAS DEFERENS; VIRILIZATION;

ANIMALS; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0036514773     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-2760(01)00525-2     Document Type: Article

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