A unique variant of a homeobox gene related to Drosophila cut is expressed in mouse testis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 731-739

  Vanden Heuvel, Gregory B ^a   Quaggin, Susan E ^a   Igarashi, Peter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOPECIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SPERMATID; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0029787158     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.4.731     Document Type: Article

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