Understanding the genes involved in spermatogenesis: A progress report

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 989-995

  Cooke, Howard J ^a,b   Hargreave, Tim ^a   Elliott, David J ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Human Genetics Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genes; Meiosis; Repair; RNA; Splicing; Translation

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGOSPERMIA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 17444448889     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00071-5     Document Type: Article

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