Premature Sperm Activation and Defective Spermatogenesis Caused by Loss of spe-46 Function in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Liau, Wei Siang ^a   Nasri, Ubaydah ^a   Elmatari, Daniel ^a   Rothman, Jason ^a   LaMunyon, Craig W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEMIZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MEIOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERIZATION; PROGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPE 46 GENE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; FERTILITY; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874628554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057266     Document Type: Article

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