Sustainable Commercial Egg Production Scholarship of The University of New England (UNE) for funding Ashley England.
Male and female broiler chickens differ in their growth performance,carcass part weights and nutrient requirements.The potential reasons for these differences have been explored by looking at differences in nutrient d...
This study was designed to determine the ability of computer-assisted sperm morphometry analysis (CASA-Morph) with fluorescence to discriminate between spermatozoa carrying different sex chromosomes from the nuclear...
This research was supported by the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at Peking University(PKU)and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC No.31271320,No.31471179).We thank Zhi Dong,Yan Zhuang,Yuechen Liu,Lin Miao and Galina Nemkova for technical assistance.Reference tiger samples for calibration were kindly provided by Dr Stephen O’Brien under a Material Transfer Agreement signed between PKU and the National Cancer Institute,USA,and in full compliance with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.We also thank Dale Miquelle for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
Poaching and trans-boundary trafficking of tigers and body parts are threatening the world’s last remaining wild tigers.Development of an efficient molecular genetic assay for tracing the origins of confiscated speci...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
This study analyses the bovine SRY DNA sequence by direct sequencing procedure, followed by the designation of the PCR primers specific for bovine SRY. Using PCR amplification of bovine SRY gene, the embryo sex was de...