Article
Mutation of a putative sperm membrane protein in Caenorhabditis elegans prevents sperm differentiation but not its associated meiotic divisions.
The Journal of cell biology - 1 Oct 1992
L'Hernault S W, Arduengo P M
Abstract excerpt
Spermatogenesis in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans uses unusual organelles, called the fibrous body-membranous organelle (FB-MO) complexes, to prepackage and deliver macromolecules to spermatids during cytokinesis that accompanies the second meiotic division. Mutations in the spe-4 (spermatog...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigens, Surface
- Base Sequence
- Caenorhabditis
- Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
- Cell Differentiation
- Male
- Meiosis
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Restriction Mapping
- Spermatocytes
- Spermatogenesis