A global expression switch marks pachytene initiation during mouse male meiosis

Genes

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 469-483

  Fallahi, Mohammad ^a   Getun, Irina V ^a   Wu, Zhen K ^a   Bois, Philippe R J ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Commitment; Dynamic; Expression array; Meiosis; Mouse; MSCI; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL RENEWAL; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ECTODERM; EPIGENETICS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SYNAPSE; X CHROMOSOME;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 79952075989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes1030469     Document Type: Article

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