Development of hemipenes in the ball python snake python regius

Sexual Development

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 6-20

  Leal, Francisca ^a   Cohn, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloacal swellings; Genital development; Homology; Spermatic sulcus; Squamates

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTA; ERINACEIDAE; PYTHON REGIUS; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BOIDAE; CLOACA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; ORGANOGENESIS; SEXUAL MATURATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; URETHRA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BOIDAE; CLOACA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENITALIA; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; ORGANOGENESIS; SEXUAL MATURATION; URETHRA;

EID: 84923602575     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000363758     Document Type: Article

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