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Identification of sperm-bearing female-specific chromosome in the sex-reversed chicken.
The Journal of experimental zoology - 1 Jan 1998
Abinawanto, Zhang C, Saito N, Matsuda Y, Shimada K
Abstract excerpt
Sexual differentiation in the female chick embryo was phenotypically reversed to the male sex by injection of an aromatase inhibitor (Fadrozole, 0.1 mg/egg) into the embryo at day 5 of incubation. The birds were raised to 10 months of age, and the morphology of the gonads of sex-reversed hens were examined by the light-microscopic morphology, and the presence of the W chromosome gene was determined by...
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