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The molecular basis of "curlicue": a sperm motility abnormality linked to the sterility of t haplotype homozygous male mice.
Society of Reproduction and Fertility supplement - 1 Jan 2007
Pilder S H, Lu J, Han Y, Hui L, Samant S A, Olugbemiga O O, Meyers K W, Cheng L, Vijayaraghavan S
Abstract excerpt
The t complex, a variant region of chromatin occupying approximately 40-million base pairs of proximal chromosome 17, exists in natural populations of wild mice of the Mus musculus species as a family of homologues called t haplotypes (t). Relative to wild-type (+) homologues, all t haplotypes share four large non-overlapping inversions, spanning 95% of the region, leading to intra-inversion recombination...
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