A novel serine/threonine kinase gene, Gek1, is expressed in meiotic testicular germ cells and primordial germ cells

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 411-420

  Yanagisawa, Masahiro ^a   Mukouyama, Yousuke ^b   Watanabe, Toshio ^b   Obinata, Masuo ^a   Matsui, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Gek1; Meiosis; Primordial germ cells; Serine threonine kinase

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029905743     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199612)45:4<411::AID-MRD2>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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