Estrogen receptor as a candidate gene for prolificacy of Small Tail Han sheep

Acta Genetica Sinica

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1060-1065

  Bi, Xiao Dan ^a   Chu, Ming Xing ^b   Jin, Hai Guo ^a   Fang, Li ^b   Ye, Su Cheng ^b  

^a YANBIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Candidate gene approach; Estrogen receptor gene; PCR SSCP; Prolificacy; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; EXON; FERTILITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BREEDING; CHINA; EXONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 26944475941     PISSN: 03794172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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