Enhanced genetic integrity in mouse germ cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Murphey, Patricia ^a   McLean, Derek J ^b   McMahan, C Alex ^c   Walter, Christi A ^c,d   McCarrey, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio   (United States)

^d SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Mutations; Oogenesis; Spermatogenesis; Spermatogonial stem cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC STABILITY; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPORTER GENE; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, THY-1; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GERM CELLS; LAC REPRESSORS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; OOCYTES; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGONIA;

MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84877027613     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.103481     Document Type: Article

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