Molecular sexing eutherian mammals

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 350-353

  Fernando, Prithiviraj ^a   Melnick, Don J ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular sexing; Sex identification; ZFX; ZFY

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346276431     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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