Aym1, a mouse meiotic gene identified by virtue of its ability to activate early meiotic genes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Developmental Biology

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-123

  Malcov, Mira ^a   Cesarkas, Karen ^a   Stelzer, Gil ^a   Shalom, Sarah ^a   Dicken, Yosef ^a   Naor, Yaniv ^a   Goldstein, Ronald S ^a   Sagee, Shira ^b   Kassir, Yona ^b   Don, Jeremy ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aym1; Early meiotic genes; Gametogenesis; IME1; Meiosis; Spermatogonia

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AYM 1 GENE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO INDUCTION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 7544248894     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.08.026     Document Type: Article

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