A-MYB (MYBL1) transcription factor is a master regulator of male meiosis

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3319-3330

  Bolcun Filas, Ewelina ^a   Bannister, Laura A ^a,b   Barash, Alex ^a   Schimenti, Kerry J ^a   Hartford, Suzanne A ^a,b   Eppig, John J ^b   Handel, Mary Ann ^b   Shen, Lishuang ^a   Schimenti, John C ^a,b  

^a Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Meiosis; Mouse

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN MYB; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CROSSING OVER; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PACHYTENE STAGE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYB; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 79960166694     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.067645     Document Type: Article

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