Increased telomere size in sperm cells of mammals with long terminal (TTAGGG)(n) arrays

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 98-104

  Kozik, Alexander ^a   Bradbury, E Morton ^a,b   Zalensky, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine; Human; Porcine; Spermatogenesis; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOMATIC CELL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SWINE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MAMMALS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; TELOMERE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0031858160     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199809)51:1<98::AID-MRD12>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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