Globozoospermia in mice lacking the casein kinase ii α catalytic subunit

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 118-121

  Xu, Xin ^a   Toselli, Paul A ^a   Russell, Lonnie D ^b   Seldin, David C ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE II;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE TARGETING; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032879917     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/12729     Document Type: Article

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