Sex determining of cat embryo and some feline species

Zygote

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 169-177

  Ciani, Francesca ^a   Cocchia, Natascia ^a   Rizzo, Maria ^a   Ponzio, Patrizia ^b   Tortora, Gennaro ^a   Avallone, Luigi ^a   Lorizio, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Domestic cat; Embryo biopsy; Nested PCR; Sexing; Wild felids

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CAT; FELIDAE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETICS; MALE; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATOZOON; SRY GENE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATS; FELIDAE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENES, SRY; MALE; OOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SPERMATOZOA; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 42149106199     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: 14698730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199408004681     Document Type: Article

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