Identification of a line of sheep carrying a putative autosomal gene increasing ovulation rate in sheep that does not appear to interact with mutations in the transforming growth factor beta superfamily

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-120

  Juenge, Jennifer L ^a   O'Connel, Anne R ^a   French, Michelle C ^a   Proctor, Luke E ^a   Wheeler, Roger ^b   Farquhar, Phil A ^a   Dodds, Ken G ^a   Galloway, Susan M ^a   Johnstone, Peter D ^a   Davis, George H ^a  

^a INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b Woodlands Research Station   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Davisdale; Follicular development; Follicular maturation; Genetics; Ovary; Ovine sheep; Ovulation rate gene; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1B; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; HETEROZYGOTE; INFERTILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN FAMILY; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 15; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MUTATION; OVULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79960132028     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.090514     Document Type: Article

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