Postnatal testicular development in mouse species with different levels of sperm competition

Reproduction

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 333-346

  Montoto, Laura Gómez ^a   Arregui, Lucía ^a,b   Sánchez, Noemí Medina ^a   Gomendio, Montserrat ^a   Roldan, Eduardo R S ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELL TYPE; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERM COMPETITION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS SIZE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84858987178     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0245     Document Type: Article

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