Evaluation of prolactin receptor (prlr) as candidate gene for male fertility in hanoverian warmblood horses

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Giesecke, K ^a   Hamann, H ^a   Sieme, H ^a   Distl, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HORSE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HORSES; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, PROLACTIN;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 77957118485     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2009.01533.x     Document Type: Article

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