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Onset of meiosis in the chicken embryo; evidence of a role for retinoic acid

BACKGROUND: Meiosis in higher vertebrates shows a dramatic sexual dimorphism: germ cells enter meiosis and arrest at prophase I during embryogenesis in females, whereas in males they enter mitotic arrest during embryogenesis and enter meiosis only after birth. Here we report the molecular analysis o...

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Autores principales: Smith, Craig A, Roeszler, Kelly N, Bowles, Josephine, Koopman, Peter, Sinclair, Andrew H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18799012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-8-85