Epigenetic differences between male and female bovine blastocysts produced in vitro

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 264-272

  Bermejo Alvarez P ^a   Rizos, D ^a   Rath, D ^c   Lonergan, P ^b   Gutierrez Adan, A ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Methylation; mRNA transcription; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DNA CONTENT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TELOMERE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; NUCLEAR FACTOR 90 PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN-ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX FACTORS; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERE; ZYGOTE;

BOVINAE;

EID: 38749122458     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00234.2007     Document Type: Article

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