Sex determines the expression level of one third of the actively expressed genes in bovine blastocysts

P Bermejo-Alvarez, D Rizos, D Rath… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Although genetically identical for autosomal Chrs (Chr), male and female preimplantation
embryos could display sex-specific transcriptional regulation. To illustrate sex-specific …

Maternal diet and other factors affecting offspring sex ratio: a review

CS Rosenfeld, RM Roberts - Biology of reproduction, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Mammals usually produce approximately equal numbers of sons and daughters, but there
are exceptions to this general rule, as has been observed in ruminant ungulate species …

Analysis of differential messenger RNA expression between bovine blastocysts produced in different culture systems: implications for blastocyst quality

D Rizos, P Lonergan, MP Boland… - Biology of …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Using reverse transcriptase-amplified fragment length polymorphism (RT-AFLP) analysis of
differential mRNA expression and semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain …

Temporal divergence in the pattern of messenger RNA expression in bovine embryos cultured from the zygote to blastocyst stage in vitro or in vivo

P Lonergan, D Rizos, A Gutiérrez-Adán… - Biology of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The objective of this study was to examine the time during the postfertilization period that
gene expression patterns in in vitro-cultured bovine embryos diverge from those of their in …

A role for cell sex in stem cell–mediated skeletal muscle regeneration: female cells have higher muscle regeneration efficiency

BM Deasy, A Lu, JC Tebbets, JM Feduska… - The Journal of cell …, 2007 - rupress.org
We have shown that muscle-derived stem cells (MDSCs) transplanted into dystrophic (mdx)
mice efficiently regenerate skeletal muscle. However, MDSC populations exhibit …

[PDF][PDF] Focus on Mammalian Embryogenomics Epigenetic reprogramming in embryonic and foetal development upon somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning

H Niemann, XC Tian, WA King, RSF Lee - Reproduction, 2008 - Citeseer
The birth of 'Dolly', the first mammal cloned from an adult donor cell, has sparked a flurry of
research activities to improve cloning technology and to understand the underlying …