A Rapid, Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Procedure for Identifying Mutant Restricted Ovulator Chickens

Poultry Science

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1113-1117

  Bujo, H ^a   Elkin, R G ^b   Lindstedt, K A ^a   Nimpf, J ^a   Bitgood, J J ^c   Schneider, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken; Oocyte vitellogenesis receptor; Polymerase chain reaction; Restricted ovulator; Single gene defect

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS;

AVIAN PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DNA; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OVR PROTEIN, GALLUS GALLUS; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVULATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OVULATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, LDL;

EID: 0030227862     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.0751113     Document Type: Article

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