Sex determination

EMBO Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 588-592

  Mittwoch, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIVILIZATION; CONCEPTION; GENDER; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84879695294     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2013.84     Document Type: Article

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