Intersexuality in a crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous);Intersexualidade em uma raposa (Cerdocyon thous)

Pesquisa Veterinaria Brasileira

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 510-514

  Mattos, Marcos R F ^a   Simões Mattos, Lucilene ^a   Pilati, Célso ^b   Silva, Lúcia D M ^c   Domingues, Sheyla F S ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d Laboratório de Biologia e Medicina de Animais da Amazônia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerdocyon thous; Crab eating fox; Gonadal absence; Intersexuality; Reproductive pathology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DUSICYON THOUS;

EID: 77957231647     PISSN: 0100736X     EISSN: 16785150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-736X2010000600007     Document Type: Article

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