Temporal expression of cell cycle-related proteins during spermatogenesis: Establishing a timeline for onset of the meiotic divisions

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 277-284

  Inselman, A ^a   Eaker, S ^a   Handel, M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MUTANT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; KINETICS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN KINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 1842423451     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076813     Document Type: Article

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