Using Animal Models to Study the Interplay Between the Biodevelopmental Pathways Underlying Human Sexual Orientation

Overview

Journal Arch Sex Behav

Specialties Psychiatry
Social Sciences

Date 2022 Dec 8

PMID 36477673

Authors

Francine F Burke

Meagan Hinks

Stephanie Salia

Kerri M Sparkes

Ashlyn Swift-Gallant

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