Mitochondrial DNA genotypes in nuclear transfer-derived cloned sheep

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 90-93

  Evans, Matthew J ^a   Gurer, Cagan ^a   Loike, John D ^a   Wilmut, Ian ^b   Schnieke, Angelika E ^b   Schon, Eric A ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; DNA MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FETUS CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALIA; CHIMAERIFORMES; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032871508     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12696     Document Type: Article

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