Spermatogenesis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-203

  Chu, Diana S ^a   Shakes, Diane C ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome segregation; Differentiation; Meiosis; Organelle morphogenesis; Paternal epigenetics; Sperm maturation; Spermiogenesis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE I; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN FER 1; PROTEIN TRY 5; PROTEINASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELT 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPE 44; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL BUDDING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 84867512817     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_7     Document Type: Article

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