Sex Determination across Evolution: Connecting the Dots
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- 18 January 2005
- journal article
- primer
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLOS Biology
- Vol. 3 (1) , e21
Abstract
Sexual differentiation appears to be an ancient, and potentially homologous, feature of animal biology, and yet the pathways that underlie the process exhibit bewildering variety.Keywords
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