From the origin of sex-determining factors to the evolution of sex-determining systems

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 163-180

  Uller, Tobias ^a   Helanterä, Heikki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Developmental plasticity; Ectotherm vertebrates; Evolution; Phenotypic plasticity; Reptiles; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052720307     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661118     Document Type: Article

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