Male or female? The answer depends on when you ask

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2782-2784

  Salz, Helen K ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN SXL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLASTODERM; DIPLOIDY; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38549107620     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050335     Document Type: Short Survey

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