Molecular mechanisms determining sperm motility initiation in two sparids (Sparus aurata and Lithognathus mormyrus)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 356-366

  Zilli, Loredana ^a   Schiavone, Roberta ^a   Storelli, Carlo ^a   Vilella, Sebastiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Motility initiation; Phosphorylation; Signal transduction; Sparid; Sperm; Sperm motility and transport

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE ANCHORING PROTEIN; DYRK3 KINASE; MYOTUBULARIN RELATED PROTEIN 1; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; LITHOGNATHUS MORMYRUS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPARUS AURATA; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM; PROTEOME; SEA BREAM; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; LITHOGNATHUS MORMYRUS; SPARIDAE; SPARUS AURATA;

EID: 48749132808     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.068296     Document Type: Article

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