Identification of isoforms of a mitotic motor in mammalian spermatogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1360-1369

  Navolanic, Patrick M ^a   Sperry, Ann O ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; KINESIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FLAGELLUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HAMSTER; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034009908     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod62.5.1360     Document Type: Article

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