Interallelic and Intergenic Incompatibilities of the Prdm9 (Hst1) Gene in Mouse Hybrid Sterility

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Flachs, Petr ^a   Mihola, Ondřej ^a   Šimeček, Petr ^a   Gregorová, Soňa ^a   Schimenti, John C ^b   Matsui, Yasuhisa ^c   Baudat, Frédéric ^d   de Massy, Bernard ^d   Piálek, Jaroslav ^e   Forejt, Jiří ^a   Trachtulec, Zdenek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; HYBRID STERILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRDM9 GENE; PROGENY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84870708407     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003044     Document Type: Article

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