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Gene changes may minimize masculinizing and defeminizing influences of exposure to male cotwins in female callitrichine primates

BACKGROUND: Sexual differentiation in female mammals can be altered by the proximity of male littermates in utero, a phenomenon known as the intrauterine position effect (IUP). Among simian primates, callitrichines (marmosets and tamarins) are likely candidates for IUP, since they exhibit obligate d...

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Autores principales: French, Jeffrey A., Frye, Brett, Cavanaugh, Jon, Ren, Dongren, Mustoe, Aaryn C., Rapaport, Lisa, Mickelberg, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27257473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13293-016-0081-y