Embryo transfer and related technologies in sheep reproduction

Reproduction Nutrition Development

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 615-628

  Loi, Pasqualino ^a   Ptak, Grazyna ^b   Dattena, Maria ^a   Ledda, Sergio ^c   Naitana, Salvatore ^c   Cappai, Pietro ^a  

^a Ist Zootecnico Caseario Sardegna   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embryo freezing; In vitro maturation; Nuclear transfer; Sheep; Superovulation; Transgenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL; CLONING; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SHEEP; SUPEROVULATION;

ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; SUPEROVULATION;

EID: 0032197723     PISSN: 09265287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/rnd:19980604     Document Type: Article

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