Histone macroH2A1.2 is concentrated in the XY-body by the early pachytene stage of spermatogenesis

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 254-260

  Hoyer Fender, Sigrid ^a   Costanzi, Carl ^b   Pehrson, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Histone macroH2A; Male germ cells; Sex vesicle; X inactivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034255999     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.4951     Document Type: Article

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