Sexual dimorphism in the early embryogenesis in zebra finches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Tagirov, Makhsud ^a   Rutkowska, Joanna ^b  

^a Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences Kiev   (Ukraine)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; EMBRYO SIZE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR GENE; GROWTH REGULATION; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMITE; STEROIDOGENESIS; STRESS; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; FINCH; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FINCHES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84916910220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114625     Document Type: Article

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