Genome activation in bovine embryos: Review of the literature and new insights from RNA sequencing experiments

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 149, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 46-58

  Graf, Alexander ^a   Krebs, Stefan ^a   Heininen Brown, Mari ^a   Zakhartchenko, Valeri ^a   Blum, Helmut ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embryonic genome activation; Parent specific transcript analysis; RNA sequencing

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BOVINE; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84927689313     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2014.05.016     Document Type: Article

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