Development, differentiation and manipulation of chicken germ cells

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-40

  Nakamura, Yoshiaki ^a,b,c   Kagami, Hiroshi ^a,b   Tagami, Takahiro ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chicken; Cryopreservation; Germ cells; Transgenesis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CHICKEN; GERM CELL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BLASTODERM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICKENS; CROSSES, GENETIC; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELLS; GONADS; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA;

AVES;

EID: 84872128915     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12026     Document Type: Review

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