Mammalian oocyte development: Checkpoints for competence

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-20

  Fair, Trudee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Cattle; Follicular oocyte growth; Gene expression.

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; POLYADENYLATION; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; POLYADENYLATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

BOS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 73649091477     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD09216     Document Type: Review

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