Cellular Source and Mechanisms of High Transcriptome Complexity in the Mammalian Testis

Cell Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2179-2190

  Soumillon, Magali ^a,b,c,h   Necsulea, Anamaria ^a,b,i   Weier, Manuela ^a   Brawand, David ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaolan ^c   Gu, Hongcang ^c   Barthès, Pauline ^d   Kokkinaki, Maria ^e   Nef, Serge ^f   Gnirke, Andreas ^c   Dym, Martin ^e   deMassy, Bernard ^d   Mikkelsen, Tarjei S ^c,g,h   Kaessmann, Henrik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^g HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; RNA; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879795456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.05.031     Document Type: Article

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