Sexual dimorphism in digit-length ratios of laboratory mice

Anatomical Record

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 231-234

  Brown, Windy M ^a   Finn, Christopher J ^a   Breedlove, S Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Digit ratios; Mice; Sex difference; Weanling

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; FINGER; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; INDEX FINGER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FORELIMB; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; OUTBRED STRAIN; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MALE; MICE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ANIMALS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036629228     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.10108     Document Type: Review

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