Spermatozoal RNAs: What about their functions?

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 536-551

  Dadoune, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Centre Universitaire des Saints Peres   (France)

Author keywords

Male specific genomic imprinting; Paternal contribution; Sperm chromatin; Sperm epigenome; Spermatozoal RNAs

Indexed keywords

GENES;

ARCHITECTURAL CHANGES; EPIGENOMES; FERTILISATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MALE-SPECIFIC GENOMIC IMPRINTING; PATERNAL CONTRIBUTION; RNA POPULATION; SPERM CHROMATIN; SPERM EPIGENOME; SPERMATOZOAL RNA;

RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; HISTONE; MICRORNA; NUCLEASE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GERM LINE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SPERM CHROMATIN; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 67649429832     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20697     Document Type: Review

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