Can bovine in vitro-matured oocytes selectively process X- or Y-sorted sperm differentially?

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 594-597

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

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Animal reproduction technology; Fertilization; In vitro fertilization; Male and female bovine embryos; Sex sorted sperm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CELL SORTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 53349156728     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.070169     Document Type: Article

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