A protein kinase encoded by the t complex responder gene causes non- mendelian inheritance

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6758, 1999, Pages 141-146

  Herrmann, Bernhard G ^a   Koschorz, Birgit ^a   Wertz, Karin ^a   McLaughlin, K John ^a,b   Kispert, Andreas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0033547329     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45970     Document Type: Article

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