The mouse Dazla gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein essential for gametogenesis

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6646, 1997, Pages 73-77

  Ruggiu, Matteo ^a   Speed, Robert ^a   Taggart, Mary ^a   McKay, Stewart J ^a   Kilanowski, Fiona ^a   Saunders, Philippa ^b   Dorin, Julia ^a   Cooke, Howard J ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE TARGETING; HETEROZYGOTE; INFERTILITY; MALE; MICE; OVARY; PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0030885623     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37987     Document Type: Article

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