Early embryonic determination of the sexual dimorphism in segment number in geophilomorph centipedes

EvoDevo

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brena, Carlo ^a   Green, Jack ^a   Akam, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intraspecific variability; Molecular sexing assay; Segmentation; Sex determination; Strigamia maritima

Indexed keywords

CHILOPODA; GEOPHILOMORPHA; STRIGAMIA; STRIGAMIA MARITIMA;

EID: 84881081152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20419139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-4-22     Document Type: Article

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