Nothing 'FISH'y about the rhesus macaque sex ratio

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-50

  Hung, Pei Hsuan ^a,b   Froenicke, Lutz ^a,b   Lyons, Leslie A ^a,b   VandeVoort, Catherine A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Real time PCR; Rhesus monkey; Sperm; X:Y ratio

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHESUS MONKEY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; DNA; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 58549097890     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2008.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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