Telomere-to-centromere ratio of bovine clones, embryos, gametes, fetal cells, and adult cells

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-73

  Meerdo, Lora N ^a   Reed, William A ^b   White, Kenneth L ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Utah State University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BLASTOCYST; CELL AGING; CELL LYSATE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CLONE; COW; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS; FETUS CELL; GAMETE; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOSIS; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOT BLOT HYBRIDIZATION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERM; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; CLONING, ORGANISM; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIBROBLASTS; OOCYTES; OVARY; SHEEP; TELOMERE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 17644397395     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2005.7.62     Document Type: Article

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