Application study of developmental engineering for livestock production

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-22

  Ushijima, Hitoshi ^a  

^a Chiba Prefectural Animal Experimental Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delipation; Embryo splitting; Intracytoplasmic injection; Nuclear transplantation; Sex prediction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING; CYTOPLASM; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENDER AND SEX; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; TIME; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, ORGANISM; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SEMEN; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 20544470224     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.51.15     Document Type: Article

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