Bioscientifica Proceedings

Summary. Low fertility is one of the major problems limiting the efficiency of the dairy industry. Successful pregnancy establishment and development to term depend on the suitability of the endometrial environment and the intrinsic quality of the embryo. Accurate assessment of both, however, is challenging. Therefore, the present survey reviews current knowledge of the molecular networks in the endometrium related to pregnancy establishment and maintenance to...

Advances in the analyses of human and other higher eukaryotic genomes have disclosed a large fraction of the genetic material (ca 98%) which does not code for proteins. Major portion of this non-coding genome is in fact transcribed into an enormous repertoire of functional non coding RNA molecules (ncRNAs) rather than encoding any proteins. Recent fascinating and fast progress in bioinformatic, high-throughput sequencing and other biochemical approaches have fuelled rapid ...