Sexually Dimorphic and Sex-Independent Left-Right Asymmetries in Chicken Embryonic Gonads

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Intarapat, Sittipon ^a,b   Stern, Claudio D ^b  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ERNI GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM CELL; GONAD; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NANOG GENE; NONHUMAN; OCT3 GENE; OCT4 GENE; POUV GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOX2 GENE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GONADS; MALE; OVARY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS;

EID: 84880459488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069893     Document Type: Article

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