Sex determination: Where environment and genetics meet

Evolution and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-55

  Crews, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENT; GENDER AND SEX; LIZARD; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE; TURTLE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; LIZARDS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); FELIDAE; GEKKO; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA PARDUS; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037269953     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-142X.2003.03008.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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