Growth hormone gene polymorphism and reproductive performance of AI bulls

Theriogenology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1145-1152

  Lechniak, D ^a   Machnik, G ^a   Szydlowski, M ^a   Switonski, M ^a  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bull; Growth hormone; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Sperm characteristics

Indexed keywords

DNA; GROWTH HORMONE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLOOD; CATTLE; COW; CRYOPRESERVATION; EJACULATION; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA; EJACULATION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH HORMONE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0033231586     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00206-X     Document Type: Article

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