Nuclear lamins in mammalian spermatogenesis

Epigenetics and Human Health

Volumn 2148, Issue , 2011, Pages 279-288

  Alsheimer, Manfred ^a   Jahn, Daniel ^a   Schramm, Sabine ^a   Benavente, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lamins; Mammals; Meiosis; Spermatogenesis; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; FERTILITY; GERM CELL; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LAMINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84867000744     PISSN: 21912262     EISSN: 21912270     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14773-9_12     Document Type: Article

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