Evidence that meiotic sex chromosome inactivation is essential for male fertility

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 2117-2123

  Royo, Hélne ^a   Polikiewicz, Grzegorz ^a   Mahadevaiah, Shantha K ^a   Prosser, Haydn ^b   Mitchell, Mike ^c   Bradley, Allan ^b   De Rooij, Dirk G ^d   Burgoyne, Paul S ^a   Turner, James M A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 78650144544     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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