X inactive-specific transcript (Xist) expression and X chromosome inactivation in the preattachment bovine embryo

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 769-775

  De La Fuente, Rabindranath ^a   Hahnel, Ann ^a   Basrur, Parvathi K ^a   King, W Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032998796     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.3.769     Document Type: Article

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