Confrontation, consolidation, and recognition: The oocyte’s perspective on the incoming sperm

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Miller, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTAMINE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DNA PACKAGING; EPIGENETICS; GENOME; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; OOCYTE; SPERM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

CELL COMMUNICATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84940040872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a023408     Document Type: Article

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