Production of identical mouse twins and a triplet with predicted gender

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 247-256

  Carstea, Bogdan Valer ^a   Lemos, Ana Paula Catunda ^a   Ilie, Elena Daniela ^b   Varga, László ^a   Bodó, Szilárd ^a   Kovács, András ^a   Bösze, Zsuzsanna ^a   Gócza, Elen ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b BANAT S UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; TETRAPLOIDY; TWINS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CHIMERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MICE; POLYPLOIDY; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); TWINS;

MUS;

EID: 34347386880     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2006.0055     Document Type: Article

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