Somatic sex identity is cell autonomous in the chicken

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7286, 2010, Pages 237-242

  Zhao, D ^a   McBride, D ^a   Nandi, S ^a   McQueen, H A ^c   McGrew, M J ^a   Hocking, P M ^b   Lewis, P D ^d   Sang, H M ^a   Clinton, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOTOMY; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; GENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POULTRY; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL FUNCTION; CHICKEN; CHIMERA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOMATIC CELL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GONADAL HORMONES; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CHIMAERIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77949353712     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08852     Document Type: Article

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