Sequence analysis of the conserved protamine gene cluster shows that it contains a fourth expressed gene

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-6

  Schlüter, Gregor ^a   Celik, Arzu ^a   Obata, Renato ^a   Schlicker, Mike ^a   Hofferbert, Sigrun ^a   Schlung, Astrid ^a   Adham, Ibrahim M ^a   Engel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Spermatogenesis; Transition protein

Indexed keywords

BASIC PROTEIN; PROTAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CATTLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTAMINES; RATS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

BOVINAE; MURINAE;

EID: 0030069656     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199601)43:1<1::AID-MRD1>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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