Current knowledge of sexual differential in domestic fowl Sexual differential in domestic fowl

World's Poultry Science Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-123

  Kagami, H ^a   Hanada, H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

control; Differentiaton; domestic fowl; embryo engineering; mixed sex chimeras; molecular biology; reversal; sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008544238     PISSN: 00439339     EISSN: 17434777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/WPS19970012     Document Type: Article

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