Embryonic diapause is conserved across mammals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Ptak, Grazyna E ^a,b   Tacconi, Emanuela ^a   Czernik, Marta ^a   Toschi, Paola ^a   Modlinski, Jacek A ^b   Loi, Pasqualino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DIAPAUSE; EVOLUTION; EWE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH DISORDER; IN VITRO STUDY; LAMB; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVINE EMBRYO; PHYLOGENY; SHEEP; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NIDATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84858045450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033027     Document Type: Article

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