Search for the Bovine Homolog of the Murine Ped Gene and Characterization of Its Messenger RNA Expression during Bovine Preimplantation Development

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 488-494

  Fair, Trudee ^a   Gutierrez Adan, Alfonso ^b   Murphy, Madeline ^a   Rizos, Dimitrios ^a   Martin, Finian ^a   Boland, Maurice P ^a   Lonergan, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Early development; Embryo; Gene regulation; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

CONTIG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LAMB; MORULA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OVIDUCT; PED GENE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0742323924     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.022137     Document Type: Article

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