Sexual differentiation of the urogenital system of the fetal and neonatal tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-134

  Renfree, Marilyn B ^a   O, Wai Sum ^c   Short, R V ^b   Shaw, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gonad; Mammary primordia; Marsupial; Pouch; Scrotum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; INGUINAL CANAL; MALE; MAMMARY GLAND; MARSUPIAL; MESONEPHROS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS; TESTIS DESCENT; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TUNICA VAGINALIS; UROGENITAL SINUS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

EID: 8944260902     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00195006     Document Type: Article

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