Reproductive performance of a transgenic boar carrying the bovine growth hormone gene (bGH)

Journal of Applied Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 337-341

  Rejduch, Barbara ^a   Słota, Ewa ^a   Sysa, Paweł ^b   Rózycki, Marian ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

bGH transgenic boar; Fertility; Spermatogenesis; Synaptonemal complexes

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SWINE; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CATTLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOGENESIS; SWINE; TESTIS;

EID: 0036043402     PISSN: 12341983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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