Complete replication of human sperm genome in egg extracts from Xenopus laevis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 641-647

  Xu, Yong Sheng ^a   Overton, W Roy ^b   Marmar, Joel L ^c   Leonard, Jay C ^a   McCoy Jr , J Philip ^b   Butler, Gary H ^a   Li, Honghua ^a  

^a Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Hematopoiesis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; GENE REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPERM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; OOCYTES; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031907477     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.3.641     Document Type: Article

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