Evidence that sex chromosome asynapsis, rather than excess Y gene dosage, is responsible for the meiotic impairment of XYY mice

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 38-43

  Rodriguez, T A ^a   Burgoyne, Paul S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; KARYOTYPE 47,XXY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033937695     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015559     Document Type: Article

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