A possible meiotic function of the peculiar patterns of gene expression in mammalian spermatogenic cells

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 3-23

  Kleene, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Meiosis; Spermatogenesis; Transcriptional promiscuity; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE II; CYTOCHROME C; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; PHOSPHOLIPID HYDROPEROXIDE GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MEIOSIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES);

EID: 0034889978     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00413-0     Document Type: Review

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