Differential testicular gene expression in seasonal fertility

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 114-125

  Maywood, Elizabeth S ^a   Chahad Ehlers, Samira ^b   Garabette, Martine L ^c   Pritchard, Claire ^d   Underhill, Phillip ^d   Greenfield, Andrew ^d   Ebling, Francis J P ^e   Akhtar, Ruth A ^b   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^b   Hastings, Michael H ^a   Reddy, Akhilesh B ^a,c  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC MGU   (United Kingdom)

^e Food Microbiology Section   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fertility; Hamster; Infertility; Microarray; Seasonal; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY; MALE; MATURATION; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TESTIS FUNCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; MUS;

EID: 64349083303     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: 15524531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730409332029     Document Type: Article

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