Impact of trisomy on fertility and meiosis in male mice

Human Reproduction

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 468-476

  Davisson, Muriel ^a   Akeson, E ^a   Schmidt, C ^a   Harris, B ^a   Farley, J ^a   Handel, M A ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Male fertility; Meiotic pairing; Spermatogenesis; Synaptonemal complex; Trisomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE STERILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROPHASE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; TRISOMY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 33846511863     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del397     Document Type: Article

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