Transcriptome profiling of the developing postnatal mouse testis using next-generation sequencing

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-12

  Gong, Wei ^a,b   Pan, LinLin ^a   Lin, Qiang ^a   Zhou, YuanYuan ^a,b   Xin, ChengQi ^a   Yu, XiaoMin ^a   Cui, Peng ^a   Hu, SongNian ^a   Yu, Jun ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

development; mouse testis; next generation sequencing; transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ERINACEIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84872360635     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-012-4411-y     Document Type: Article

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