Vertebrate extracellular preovulatory and postovulatory egg coats

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 790-797

  Menkhorst, Ellen ^a,b   Selwood, Lynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conceptus; Extracellular coat; Female reproductive tract; Homology; Ovary

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MUCOPROTEIN;

AMPHIBIA; BIRD; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION; IMMUNITY; INFUNDIBULUM; MARSUPIAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOTREMATE; MORPHOGENESIS; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVIDUCT; POLYSPERMY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPTILE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; TELEOST; UTERUS; VERTEBRATE; VIVIPARITY;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; OVULATION; OVUM; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 55549089982     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.068551     Document Type: Short Survey

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