Meiosis onset is postponed to postnatal stages during ovotestis development in female moles

Sexual Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-76

  Zurita, F ^a   Carmona, F D ^a   Lupianez D G ^a   Barrionuevo, F J ^b   Guioli, S ^c   Burgos, M ^a   Jimenez R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Germ cells; Gonadal development; Meiosis; Moles; Ovotestis; PGC; Talpa occidentalis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DOUBLESEX AND MAB 3 RELATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; GONADS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLES; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; TALPA; TALPA OCCIDENTALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34248168810     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096240     Document Type: Article

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