Male germline control of transposable elements

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bao, Jianqiang ^a   Yan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Genetics; Germline; Infertility; Small Noncoding rnas; Spermatogenesis; Transposon

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA POLYMERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; GERM LINE; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; MALE GERMLINE CONTROL; MITOSIS; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; UNTRANSLATED REGION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MALE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; REVIEW;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MALE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84864015827     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.095463     Document Type: Short Survey

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