Differentiation of female primordial germ cells in the male testes of chicken (gallus gallus domesticus)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 68-75

  Tagami, Takahiro ^a   Kagami, Hiroshi ^b   Matsubara, Yuko ^c   Harumi, Takashi ^c   Naito, Mitsuru ^c   Takeda, Kumiko ^a   Hanada, Hirofumi ^d   Nirasawa, Keijiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chickens; Germline chimera; Germline development; Primordial germ cells; Sexual differentiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHICKEN; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GERM LINE; HISTOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; OVUM; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 33751555590     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20499     Document Type: Article

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