Stallion Sperm Transcriptome Comprises Functionally Coherent Coding and Regulatory RNAs as Revealed by Microarray Analysis and RNA-seq

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Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Das, Pranab J ^a   McCarthy, Fiona ^b   Vishnoi, Monika ^a   Paria, Nandina ^a   Gresham, Cathy ^c   Li, Gang ^a   Kachroo, Priyanka ^a   Sudderth, A Kendrick ^a   Teague, Sheila ^a   Love, Charles C ^a   Varner, Dickson D ^a   Chowdhary, Bhanu P ^a   Raudsepp, Terje ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; STALLION; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FERTILITY; HORSES; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84873653547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056535     Document Type: Article

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