Identification of a new, testis-specific sperm antigen localized on the principal piece of the spermatozoa tail in the fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 502-508

  Verdier, Yann ^a,b   Farré, Guillaume ^a   Rouet, Nelly ^a   Kele, Zoltan ^b   Janáky, Tamás ^b   Boué, Franck ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Fox; Gamete biology; Sperm; Testis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SPERM ANTIGEN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; FOX; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPERMATOZOON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOXES; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPERM TAIL; TESTIS; VACCINES, CONTRACEPTIVE;

EID: 12344263687     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.032623     Document Type: Article

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