Detecting a deletion in the coding region of the bovine bone morphogenetic protein 15 gene (BMP15)

Journal of Applied Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-148

  Zhang, L P ^a   Gan, Q F ^b   Zhang, X H ^c   Li, H D ^a   Hou, G Y ^a   Li, J Y ^a   Gao, X ^a   Ren, H Y ^a   Chen, J B ^a   Xu, S Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b Fujian Province Key Laboratory of Plant Virology   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone morphogenetic protein 15 gene; Bovine; Deletion mutation

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 67149118177     PISSN: 12341983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03195665     Document Type: Article

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