The Highly Prolific Phenotype of Lacaune Sheep Is Associated with an Ectopic Expression of the B4GALNT2 Gene within the Ovary

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Drouilhet, Laurence ^a   Mansanet, Camille ^b   Sarry, Julien ^a   Tabet, Kamila ^a   Bardou, Philippe ^a   Woloszyn, Florent ^a   Lluch, Jérome ^a   Harichaux, Grégoire ^a,b   Viguié, Catherine ^c   Monniaux, Danielle ^b   Bodin, Loys ^a   Mulsant, Philippe ^a   Fabre, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^c TOXALIM RESEARCH CENTRE IN FOOD TOXICOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,4 N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE 2; GLYCOPROTEIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE; SOMATOMEDIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B4GALNT2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EWE; FECL GENE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRANULOSA CELL; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IGF2BP1 GENE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSYLATION; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 84884688088     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003809     Document Type: Article

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