Molecular cloning of the ovine growth/differentiation factor-9 gene and expression of growth/differentiation factor-9 in ovine and bovine ovaries

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 381-386

  Bodensteiner, K J ^a   Clay, C M ^a   Moeller, C L ^a   Sawyer, H R ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0032922286     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.2.381     Document Type: Article

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