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Sexually Dimorphic and Sex-Independent Left-Right Asymmetries in Chicken Embryonic Gonads

Female birds develop asymmetric gonads: a functional ovary develops on the left, whereas the right gonad regresses. In males, however, testes develop on both sides. We examined the distribution of germ cells using Vasa/Cvh as a marker. Expression is asymmetric in both sexes: at stage 35 the left gon...

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Autores principales: Intarapat, Sittipon, Stern, Claudio D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3716703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23894556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069893