Sexual versus individual differentiation: the controversial role of avian maternal hormones

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 73-80

  Carere, Claudio ^a   Balthazart, Jacques ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; SEX HORMONE;

BEHAVIOR; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOWL; GONAD; HATCHING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVIPARITY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 33847054705     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2007.01.003     Document Type: Review

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