Transcriptomic analysis of ovaries from pigs with high and low litter size

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Huang, Long ^a   Wu, Tao ^a   Feng, Yifang ^a   Ding, Yueyun ^a   Ye, Pengfei ^a   Yin, Zongjun ^a  

^a ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID HORMONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; LITTER SIZE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PIG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; LITTER SIZE; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SWINE;

EID: 84947230871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139514     Document Type: Article

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