Gonadotropin-controlled mammal oocyte meiotic resumption

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 282-296

  Zhang, Meijia ^a   Xia, Guoliang ^a   Zhou, Bo ^a   Wang, Chao ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gamete biology; Kinases; Meiotic resumption; Review; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34249804795     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/2064     Document Type: Article

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