Detailed analysis of pronucleus development in bovine zygotes in vivo: Ultrastructure and cell cycle chronology

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 62-69

  Laurincik, Jozef ^a   Kopecny, Vaclav ^b   Hyttel, Poul ^c  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bovine zygotes; Cytoplasm; Development; Pronucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FERTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA; ESTRUS; FEMALE; G1 PHASE; G2 PHASE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OVULATION; S PHASE; SEMEN; THYMIDINE; TIME FACTORS; TRITIUM; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0030033140     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199601)43:1<62::AID-MRD8>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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