Breeding genetically modified rodents: Tips for tracking and troubleshooting reproductive performance

Lab Animal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 36-41

  Murray, Kathleen A ^a   Parker, Nancy Jean ^a  

^a CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RODENTIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BREEDING; FEMALE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MICE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 19444376299     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0405-36     Document Type: Review

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