Acknowledgements The authors thank the Research Foundation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China for financial support (Grant numbers: 31060141 and 31000190). The paper was also supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Lanzhou University.
This study presents the first definitive anatomical description of the tongue and lingual papillae of the cattleyak. Data on tongues from 12 healthy cattle-yaks were collected. The results show that five types of papi...
supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30500360);the Open Topic of State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology (2009SKLAB07-2)
The H19 gene, which is imprinted with preferential expression from the maternal allele, was one of the first identified imprinting genes in mammals. Recent studies revealed that correct imprinting of the H19 gene play...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.30500360);Youth Science and Technology Innovation Fund for young scientists of Nanjing Agriculture University (KJ05011)
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