Male seminal fluid proteins are essential for sperm storage in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 837-844

  Tram, Uyen ^a,b   Wolfner, Mariana F ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; SEMINAL FLUID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATIC SECRETORY PROTEINS; PROTEINS; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032845428     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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