Gonad Differentiation in the Rabbit: Evidence of Species-Specific Features

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Daniel Carlier, Nathalie ^a   Harscoët, Erwana ^a   Thépot, Dominique ^a   Auguste, Aurélie ^a,b   Pailhoux, Eric ^a   Jolivet, Geneviève ^a  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DMC1 GENE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MEIOSIS; NANOS2 GENE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PUBERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SRY GENE; STRA8 GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; OVARY; OVUM; PUBERTY; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TRETINOIN;

MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84876001475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060451     Document Type: Article

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