Transcriptome analysis of highly purified mouse spermatogenic cell populations: Gene expression signatures switch from meiotic-to postmeiotic-related processes at pachytene stage

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  da Cruz, Irene ^a   Rodríguez Casuriaga, Rosana ^a   Santiñaque, Federico F ^a   Farías, Joaquina ^a   Curti, Gianni ^a   Capoano, Carlos A ^a   Folle, Gustavo A ^a   Benavente, Ricardo ^b   Sotelo Silveira, José Roberto ^a,c   Geisinger, Adriana ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; RNAseq; Spermatogenesis; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; LEPTOTENE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SEX CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PROPHASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; ZYGOTENE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MOUSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGONIUM;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MALE; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICE; PACHYTENE STAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TRANSCRIPTOME; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 85007593464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2618-1     Document Type: Article

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