A human candidate spermatogenesis gene, RBM1, is conserved and amplified on the marsupial Y chromosome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-136

  Delbridge, Margaret L ^a   Harry, Jenny L ^b   Toder, Roland ^a   Waughneill, Rachel J ^a   Ma, Kun ^c   Chandley, Ann C ^c   Marshall Graves, Jennifer A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME YQ; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENES; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031053390     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-131     Document Type: Article

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