The X bivalent in fetal bovine oocytes

Hereditas

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-65

  Koykul, W ^a   Switonski, M ^a,b   Basrur, P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FETUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031005831     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1997.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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