Fertility investigations in the F1 hybrid and backcross progeny of cattle (Bos taurus) and yak (B. Grunniens) in Mongolia

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-73

  Tumennasan, Kh ^a   Tuya, Ts ^a   Hotta, Y ^b   Takase, H ^b   Speed, R M ^c   Chandley, A C ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d 20 Comely Bank ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HETEROSIS; ORGAN SIZE; TESTIS;

BOS GRUNNIENS; BOS TAURUS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HYBRID VIGOR; MALE; MEIOSIS; MONGOLIA; ORGAN SIZE; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS;

EID: 0030611329     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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