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Degree of sex differentiation of genetic female chicken treated with different doses of an aromatase inhibitor.
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation - 1 Jan 2008
Yang X, Zheng J, Na R, Li J, Xu G, Qu L, Yang N
Abstract excerpt
Injection of an aromatase inhibitor before gonadal sex differentiation can induce female-to-male sex reversal in chicken, but a higher dose could reduce hatchability. In the present study, the dosage effect of Fadrozole, a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor, on gonadal differentiation was analyzed in sex-reversed genetic female chicken. There was no significant difference for the hatchability among low-dose (0.1,...
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