Vertebrate reproduction

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Kornbluth, Sally ^a   Fissore, Rafael ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; STEM CELL; VERTEBRATE; ZYGOTE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; STEM CELLS; VERTEBRATES; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84943279495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a006064     Document Type: Article

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