Booroola BMPR1B mutation alters early follicular development and oocyte ultrastructure in sheep

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 353-361

  Reader, Karen L ^a   Haydon, Lisa J ^a   Littlejohn, Roger P ^a   Juengel, Jennifer L ^a   McNatty, Kenneth P ^b  

^a INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

BMPR1B mRNA expression; electron microscopy; mitochondria; ovarian development; ribosomes; smooth endoplasmic reticulum

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1B; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOOROOLA EWE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EWE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRANULOSA CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LAMB; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; RIBOSOME; SHEEP; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; MUTATION; OOCYTES; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84856857727     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD11095     Document Type: Article

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