Mouse Y-Linked Zfy1 and Zfy2 Are Expressed during the Male-Specific Interphase between Meiosis I and Meiosis II and Promote the 2nd Meiotic Division

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Vernet, Nadège ^a,b   Mahadevaiah, Shantha K ^a   Yamauchi, Yasuhiro ^c   Decarpentrie, Fanny ^a   Mitchell, Michael J ^d,e   Ward, Monika A ^c   Burgoyne, Paul S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CHROMOSOME BIVALENT; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTERPHASE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOSIS 1; MEIOSIS 2; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME; ZFX GENE; ZFY1 GENE; ZFY2 GENE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; Y CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZFY1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ZFY2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN, X-LINKED;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, Y-LINKED; INTERPHASE; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84903477469     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004444     Document Type: Article

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