On the possible cause of monozygotic twinning: Lessons from the 9-banded armadillo and from assisted reproduction

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 394-399

  Blickstein, Isaac ^a,b   Keith, Louis G ^c  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TWINNING, MONOZYGOTIC;

ARMADILLO; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34247479511     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.10.2.394     Document Type: Article

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