Male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefish: Beyond the mammalian model

BioEssays

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 884-896

  Stölting, Kai N ^a   Wilson, Anthony B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Zoological Museum   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; FISH; MALE ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; OVIPARITY; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIVIPARITY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EUTHERIA; HIPPOCAMPINAE; MAMMALIA; PISCES; SYNGNATHIDAE; SYNGNATHINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548726183     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20626     Document Type: Review

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