Meiotic studies in an azoospermic boar carrying a Y;14 translocation

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 120, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 106-111

  Pinton, A ^a   Raymond Letron, I ^b   Berland, H M ^a   Bonnet, N ^a   Calgaro, A ^a   Garnier Bonnet, A ^a   Yerle, M ^a   Ducos, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS BIOPSY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; AZOOSPERMIA; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEIOSIS; SPERMATOCYTES; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 43449083533     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000118747     Document Type: Article

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