EST analysis of gene expression in testis of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 431-445

  Inaba, Kazuo ^a,b   Padma, Potturi ^a   Satouh, Yuhkoh ^a   Shin i, Tadasu ^c   Kohara, Yuji ^c   Satoh, Nori ^d   Satou, Yutaka ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Flagella; Genome; Sperm; Spermatogenesis; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FLAGELLUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HORMONE RELEASE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMAL; CIONA INTESTINALIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; OVUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLATION, GENETIC; ANIMALS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036019130     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10131     Document Type: Article

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