Pachytene asynapsis drives meiotic sex chromosome inactivation and leads to substantial postmeiotic repression in spermatids

Developmental Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 521-529

  Turner, James M A ^a   Mahadevaiah, Shantha K ^a   Ellis, Peter J I ^b   Mitchell, Michael J ^c   Burgoyne, Paul S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATID;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; PACHYTENE STAGE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPERMATIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; XYY KARYOTYPE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33645514277     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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