Expression of chicken zygote arrest 1 (Zar1) and Zar1-like genes during sexual maturation and embryogenesis

Veterinary Research Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-184

  Michailidis, Georgios ^a   Argiriou, Anagnostis ^b   Avdi, Melpomeni ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chicken; Oocyte specific genes; Sexual maturation; Zar1; Zar1 like

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZYGOTE ARREST 1;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; MALE FERTILITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; EGG PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; TESTIS;

ANURA; BOS; DANIO RERIO; GALLUS GALLUS; OVIS ARIES; RATTUS; SUIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952554440     PISSN: 01657380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11259-010-9343-z     Document Type: Article

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