Ovarian morphology and endocrine characteristics of female sheep fetuses that are heterozygous or homozygous for the inverdale prolificacy gene (fecX')

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1183-1192

  Smith, P ^a   O, W S ^b   Corrigan, K A ^a   Smith, T ^a   Lundy, T ^a   Davis, G H ^c   McNatty, K P ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GERM CELL; GRANULOSA CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENES, REGULATOR; GERM CELLS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HORMONES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030733222     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.1183     Document Type: Article

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