TOPAZ1, a novel germ cell-specific expressed gene conserved during evolution across vertebrates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Baillet, Adrienne ^a,b   Bouffant, Ronan ^c   Volff, Jean Nicolas ^d   Luangpraseuth, Alix ^a,b   Poumerol, Elodie ^a,b   Thépot, Dominique ^a,b   Pailhoux, Eric ^a,b   Livera, Gabriel ^c   Cotinot, Corinne ^a,b   Mandon Pépin, Béatrice ^a,b  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN TOPAZ1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXON; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM CELL; GONAD; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEX RATIO; SHEEP; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TOPAZ1 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP; TESTIS; VERTEBRATES;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858242222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026950     Document Type: Article

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