Mechanistic basis of infertility of mouse intersubspecific hybrids

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bhattacharyya, Tanmoy ^a   Gregorova, Sona ^a   Mihola, Ondrej ^a   Anger, Martin ^b,c   Sebestova, Jaroslava ^b,c   Denny, Paul ^d   Simecek, Petr ^a   Forejt, Jiri ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d Gene Effects   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome substitution strains; Haldane's rule; Meiosis; Meiotic sex chromosome inactivation; Prdm9

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MALE STERILITY; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; FEMALE; GENETIC SPECIATION; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84873428466     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219126110     Document Type: Article

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