Effects of Fertility on Gene Expression and Function of the Bovine Endometrium

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Minten, Megan A ^a   Bilby, Todd R ^b   Bruno, Ralph G S ^c   Allen, Carolyn C ^a   Madsen, Crystal A ^d   Wang, Zeping ^a   Sawyer, Jason E ^e   Tibary, Ahmed ^a   Neibergs, Holly L ^a   Geary, Thomas W ^d   Bauersachs, Stefan ^f   Spencer, Thomas E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CROSS BREEDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HEIFER; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUPEROVULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; UTERUS;

EID: 84881112158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069444     Document Type: Article

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