Detection of quantitative trait loci causing abnormal spermatogenesis and reduced testis weight in the small testis (Smt) mutant mouse

Experimental Animals

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-108

  Bolor, Hasbaira ^a   Wakasugi, Noboru ^a   Zhao, Wei Dong ^b   Ishikawa, Akira ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Meiosis; Mouse; QTL; Spermatogenesis; Testis weight

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 4; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; GIANT CELL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROPHASE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS WEIGHT; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; ORGAN SIZE; RODENT DISEASES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS MOLOSSINUS;

EID: 33646193968     PISSN: 13411357     EISSN: 13411357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1538/expanim.55.97     Document Type: Article

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