An organizer controls the development of the "sword," a sexually selected trait in swordtail fish

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 403-412

  Eibner, Cornelius ^a,b   Pittlik, Silke ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a   Begemann, Gerrit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN; CYPRINID; EMBRYO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LARVA; MATE CHOICE; METAMORPHISM; MORPHOLOGY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIMB; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MELANOPHORE; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MELANOPHORES; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTOSTERONE;

POECILIIDAE; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 47249089544     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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