Cell death and sexual differentiation of behavior: Worms, flies, and mammals

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 776-783

  Forger, Nancy G ^a   de Vries, Geert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; COURTSHIP; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOUBLESEX GENE; DROSOPHILA; FRUITLESS GENE; GENE; GLIA CELL; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MAMMAL; MOTONEURON; NEMATODE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RODENT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERTEBRATE; WORM; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA; MAMMALS; MICE; NEURONS; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78651461426     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.09.006     Document Type: Review

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