Disentangling genetic vs. environmental causes of sex determination in the common frog, Rana temporaria

BMC Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Matsuba, Chikako ^a   Miura, Ikuo ^b   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FROG; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; INHERITANCE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX LINKAGE; SEX RATIO; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SIBLING; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FINLAND; GENDER AND SEX; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; SCANDINAVIA; SEX CHROMOSOME;

AMPHIBIA; RANA TEMPORARIA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; RANA TEMPORARIA; SCANDINAVIA; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO;

EID: 40649085073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-9-3     Document Type: Article

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