The mechanisms underlying sexual differentiation of behavior and physiology in mammals and birds: relative contributions of sex steroids and sex chromosomes

From a classical viewpoint, sex-specific behavior and physiological functions as well as the brain structures of mammals such as rats and mice, have been thought to be influenced by perinatal sex steroids secreted by the gonads. Sex steroids have also been thought to affect the differentiation of th...

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Main Authors: Fumihiko eMaekawa, Shinji eTsukahara, Takaharu eKawashima, Keiko eNohara, Hiroko eOhki-hamazaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2014.00242/full