Gonadal sex differentiation in frogs: How testes become shorter than ovaries

Zoological Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 125-134

  Haczkiewicz, Katarzyna ^a   Ogielska, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Anura; gametogenesis; gonad differentiation; spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANIDAE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; OVARY; RANIDAE; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS;

EID: 84873558226     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.30.125     Document Type: Article

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