Sex-specific organ characteristics (IMAGE)

Heidelberg University

Sex-specific organ characteristics

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Surprising pattern: The genetic programmes responsible for the development of sex-specific organ characteristics in mammals are turned on almost exclusively late in the development of the organs, in puberty.

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Leticia Rodríguez-Montes

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