Computer-assisted annotation of murine sertoli cell small RNA transcriptome

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ortogero, Nicole ^a   Hennig, Grant W ^a   Langille, Chad ^a   Ro, Seungil ^a   McCarrey, John R ^b   Yan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Deep sequencing; Fertility; Genetics; High throughput; Next generation sequencing; Noncoding RNAs; Sertoli cells; Small RNA; software; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GENE CONTROL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SERTOLI CELL;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RNA; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SERTOLI CELLS; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 84877054420     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.102269     Document Type: Article

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