Studies of BMPR-IB and BMP15 as candidate genes for fecundity in Little Tailed Han Sheep

Acta Genetica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 755-760

  Liu, Shu Fang ^a   Jiang, Yun Liang ^a   Du, Li Xin ^a,b  

^a SHANDONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

BMP15 gene; BMPR IB gene; Candidate gene method; Fecundity; Little Tailed Han Sheep

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN BMP15; PROTEIN BMPR IB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PARITY; SHEEP;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; OVULATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0042943318     PISSN: 03794172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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