Use of the polymerase chain reaction to sex the bovine fetus using cells recovered by ultrasound-guided fetal fluid aspiration

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 125-133

  Makondo, K ^a   Amiridis, G S ^a   Jeffcoate, I A ^a   O'Shaughnessy, P J ^a   Boyd, J S ^a   Paterson, C ^a   Robertson, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cattle embryology; Embryo sexing; PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE;

ABATTOIRS; ALLANTOIS; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA; FEMALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0031555369     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4320(97)00071-7     Document Type: Article

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