Genesis of a novel human sequence from the protamine PRM1 gene

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 467-473

  Kramer, Jeffrey A ^a   Krawetz, Stephen A ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Male haploid expressed; Molecular evolution; Protamine; Transition protein

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOIDY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTAMINES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032193149     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(98)10062-2     Document Type: Article

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