Antiserum to the egg coats of the fat-tailed dunnart (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae) cross-reacts with egg coats of other marsupial and eutherian species

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 278, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 133-139

  Roberts, Claire T ^a   Selwood, Lynne ^b   Leigh, Chris M ^a   Breed, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MARSUPIAL; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NEW ZEALAND; OOCYTE; OPOSSUM; PEST CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RABBIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; CROSS REACTIONS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MARSUPIALIA; MICE; NEW ZEALAND; OOCYTES; OPOSSUMS; PEST CONTROL; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; DASYURIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; METATHERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SMINTHOPSIS; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; SMINTHOPSIS MURINA; THERIA; TRICHOSURUS;

EID: 0031570753     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19970615)278:3<133::AID-JEZ2>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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