Sexual dimorphism in hybrids rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1123, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-50

  Garcia Falgueras, Alicia ^a   Pinos, Helena ^a   Fernández, Rosa ^b   Collado, Paloma ^a   Pasaro, Eduardo ^b   Segovia, Santiago ^a   Guillamon, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Hybrids; Locus coeruleus; Long Evans rat; Molecular markers; Sex differences; Sexual dimorphism; SSLPs; Strain differences; Wistar rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYBRID; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 33751179201     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.053     Document Type: Article

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