A load of small RNAs in the sperm-how many bits of hereditary information?

Cell Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-19

  Kiani, Jafar ^a,b,c   Rassoulzadegan, Minoo ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DKK2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; INITIATION FACTOR 4G; RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4G; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; RNA; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA, TRANSFER; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84872045297     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2012.181     Document Type: Article

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