Mice with a targeted disruption of the H1t gene are fertile and undergo normal changes in structural chromosomal proteins during spermiogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 425-431

  Fantz, D A ^a   Hatfield, W R ^a   Horvath, G ^a   Kistler, M K ^a   Kistler, W S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gametogenesis; Meiosis; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HISTONE; PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CHROMATIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL;

EID: 0035145808     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod64.2.425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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