Reptile Embryology

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 770, Issue , 2011, Pages 439-455

  Vickaryous, Matthew K ^a   McLean, Katherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

embryo; gecko; husbandry; immunohistochemistry; PCNA; Reptilia; sex determination; whole mount histochemistry

Indexed keywords

CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS; FELIDAE; GEKKONIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES;

PARAFFIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LIZARD; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STAINING;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BREEDING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 80052944946     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-210-6_17     Document Type: Chapter

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