Ethics, legal, social, counselling insight into human sex ratio imbalance: The more boys born, the more infertile men

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 487-494

  Cheng, Hanhua ^a   Shang, Xuan ^a   He, Yan ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a   Zhang, Ya Ping ^b   Zhou, Rongjia ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolution; Male infertility; Population; Reproduction; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; DNA CONTENT; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; RACE; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; SEX CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO;

EID: 36448972012     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60378-1     Document Type: Article

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