Integrated transcriptome analysis of mouse spermatogenesis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Margolin, Gennady ^a   Khil, Pavel P ^a   Kim, Joongbaek ^a   Bellani, Marina A ^b   Camerini Otero, R D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Meiosis; piRNA; RNA Pol II; RNA Seq; Spermatogenesis; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 84892472737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-39     Document Type: Article

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