Retroposon compensatory mechanism hypothesis not supported: Zfa knockout mice are fertile

Genomics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 254-260

  Banks, Kathleen G ^a   Johnson, Kevin A ^b   Lerner, Charles P ^b   Mahaffey, Connie L ^b   Bronson, Roderick T ^b   Simpson, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Retroposon; Retroposon Compensatory Mechanism; Sex body; Sex chromosome inactivation; Sperm count; X and Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN ZFA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS;

EID: 0042121410     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-7543(03)00155-1     Document Type: Article

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