Normal spermatogenesis in mice lacking the testis-specific linker histone H1t

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2122-2128

  Lin, Qingcong ^a   Sirotkin, Allen ^a,b   Skoultchi, Arthur I ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033997968     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.6.2122-2128.2000     Document Type: Article

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