Germ cell-specific enhancer activity of a repeated element in a variable region of the mouse genome

Gene

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-92

  Sage, Julien ^a   Martin, Luc ^a   Rassoulzadegan, Minoo ^a   Cuzin, François ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Chromosome 8; Meiosis; Retrotransposon; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CADHERIN; DNA; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MURIDAE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032500826     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00420-X     Document Type: Article

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