Endometrial gene expression profiling in pregnant Meishan and Yorkshire pigs on day 12 of gestation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gu, Ting ^a   Zhu, Meng jin ^a   Schroyen, Martine ^b   Qu, Long ^b   Nettleton, Dan ^b   Kuhar, Dan ^c   Lunney, Joan K ^c   Ross, Jason W ^b   Zhao, Shu hong ^a,b   Tuggle, Christopher K ^b  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentially expressed genes; Endometrium; Implantation; Pig; Prolificacy

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREED DIFFERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GESTATIONAL AGE; LITTER SIZE; MEISHAN PIG; NONHUMAN; PIG FARMING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; YORKSHIRE PIG;

SUIDAE; SUS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LITTER SIZE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84896695509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-156     Document Type: Article

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