Differential conservation and divergence of fertility genes boule and dazl in the rainbow trout

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Li, Mingyou ^a   Shen, Qian ^a   Xu, Hongyan ^a   Wong, Foong Mei ^a   Cui, Jianzhou ^a   Li, Zhendong ^a   Hong, Ni ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Zhao, Haobin ^a   Ma, Bo ^b   Hong, Yunhan ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Heilongjiang Fisheries Research Institute   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DAZL PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOULE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAZL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GONAD; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAINBOW TROUT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; ORYZIINAE; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FISH PROTEINS; GENETIC VARIATION; GONADS; MALE; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79251553109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015910     Document Type: Article

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