Freemartinism in river buffalo: Clinical and cytogenetic observations

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 355-358

  Iannuzzi, L ^a,b   Di Meo, G P ^a   Perucatti, A ^a   Ciotola, F ^a   Incarnato, D ^a   Di Palo, R ^a   Peretti, V ^a   Campanile, G ^a   Zicarelli, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BLOOD CELL; BUFFALO; CATTLE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLITORIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HYPOPLASIA; ITALY; MALE; MATING; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PALPATION; PELVIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; REPRODUCTION; TESTIS SIZE; TWINS; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FREEMARTINISM; MALE;

ANIMALIA; BUBALUS BUBALIS;

EID: 11444257198     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081531     Document Type: Article

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