Migratory ability of chick primordial germ cells transferred into quail embryos

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-186

  Ishiguro, Susumu ^a   Minematsu, Takeo ^b   Naito, Mitsuru ^c   Kanai, Yukio ^a   Tajima, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Chimera; Embryo; Migration rate; Primordial germ cells; Quail

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CHICK EMBRYO; COTURNIX; CYTOCHEMISTRY; GERM CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHICK EMBRYO; COTURNIX; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GERM CELLS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY;

PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 66949153978     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: 13484400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.20107     Document Type: Article

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