Estrogen improves the development of yak (Bos grunniens) oocytes by targeting cumulus expansion and levels of oocyte-secreted factors during in vitro maturation

• Yangyang Pan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gansu Province Livestock Embryo Engineering Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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• Meng Wang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Gansu Province Livestock Embryo Engineering Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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• Libin Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Gansu Province Livestock Embryo Engineering Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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• Qian Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Gansu Province Livestock Embryo Engineering Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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• Abdul Rasheed Baloch,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for International Research in Cell and Gene Therapy, Sino-British Research Centre for Molecular Oncology, Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

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• Honghong He,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Gansu Province Livestock Embryo Engineering Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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• Gengquan Xu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Gansu Province Livestock Embryo Engineering Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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• Jamila Soomro,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, Pakistan

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• Yan Cui,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Gansu Province Livestock Embryo Engineering Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

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• Sijiu Yu

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sijiuy@126.com

  Affiliation Gansu Province Livestock Embryo Engineering Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4589-6712

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