Expression profiles of genes regulating dairy cow fertility: Recent findings, ongoing activities and future possibilities

Animal

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1158-1167

  Beerda, B ^a   Wyszynska Koko, J ^b   Te Pas, M F W ^a   De Wit, A A C ^a   Veerkamp, R F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dairy cow; Fertility; Genomics; Microarray; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 46749119067     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731108002371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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