Telomere length status of somatic cell sheep clones and their offspring

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1525-1537

  Alexander, Basil ^a   Coppola, Gianfranco ^a   Perrault, Steven D ^a   Peura, Teija T ^b,c   Betts, Dean H ^a   King, W Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c ARCBS Endeavour   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromosomal abnormalities; Somatic cell nuclear transfer; Telomere

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES; CLONE CELLS; DNA; FIBROBLASTS; GENOME; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SKIN; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 35848954075     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20735     Document Type: Article

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