Amelogenin cross-amplification in the family bovidae and its application for sex determination

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1333-1337

  Weikard, Rosemarie ^a   Pitra, Christian ^b   Kühn, Christa ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domestic cattle; Goat; Sequence variation; Sheep; Wild bovine species

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN; DNA;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BIOPSY; COW; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GOAT; HORSE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SHEEP; SWINE;

AMELOGENIN; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DENTAL ENAMEL PROTEINS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

ANIMALIA; BISON; BOS TAURUS; BOVIDAE; BOVINI; CAPRA HIRCUS; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33748306339     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20554     Document Type: Article

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