Mdes, a mouse homolog of the Drosophila degenerative spermatocyte gene is expressed during mouse spermatogenesis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 399-403

  Endo, Keita ^a   Matsuda, Yoichi ^b   Kobayashi, Satoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degenerative spermatocyte; Drosophila; Mouse; Spermatocyte; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030980910     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1997.00015.x     Document Type: Article

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