Normal fertility in male mice with deletion of β-catenin gene in germ cells

Genesis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 328-332

  Rivas, Bryan ^a   Huang, Zaohua ^a   Agoulnik, Alexander I ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Male fertility; Prm cre; Spermatogenesis; Stra8 icre; catenin

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; DNA; CTNNB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GERM CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TRANSGENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; OUTBRED STRAIN; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BETA CATENIN; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SIZE; SEMINAL VESICLES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84899075197     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22742     Document Type: Article

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