No universal differences between female and male eukaryotes: Anisogamy and asymmetrical female meiosis

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-21

  Gorelick, Root ^a   Carpinone, Jessica ^a   Derraugh, Lindsay Jackson ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisogamy; Gender; Meiosis; Meiotic; Polar bodies; Polar nuclei; Residual body; Sex

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; CHROMOSOME; EUKARYOTE; FEMALE; GENDER ROLE; MALE; METAZOAN; PLOIDY; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOCEROTOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EUKARYOTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; METAZOA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 84992642870     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12874     Document Type: Review

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