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Differential conservation and divergence of fertility genes boule and dazl in the rainbow trout.
PloS one - 6 Jan 2011
Li Mingyou, Shen Qian, Xu Hongyan, Wong Foong Mei, Cui Jianzhou, Li Zhendong, Hong Ni, Wang Li, Zhao Haobin, Ma Bo, Hong Yunhan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The genes boule and dazl are members of the DAZ (Deleted in Azoospermia) family encoding RNA binding proteins essential for germ cell development. Although dazl exhibits bisexual expression in mitotic and meiotic germ cells in diverse animals, boule shows unisexual meiotic expression in invertebrates and mammals but a bisexual mitotic and meiotic expression in medaka. How boule and dazl have evolved...
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