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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2011

Unique aspects of transcription regulation in male germ cells.

Helen White-Cooper, Irwin Davidson

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Tex13a Optimizes Sperm MotilityFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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  14. De novo gene birth.PLoS genetics · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Helen White-CooperSchool of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom.
Irwin Davidson
Cardiff University · GBInstitut de génétique et de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire · FR

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spermatogenesis is a complex and ordered differentiation process in which the spermatogonial stem cell population gives rise to primary spermatocytes that undergo two successive meiotic divisions followed by a major biochemical and structural reorganization of the haploid cells to generate mature elongate spermatids. The transcriptional regulatory programs that orchestrate this process have been intensively studied in model organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster and mouse. Genetic and biochemical approaches have identified the factors involved and revealed mechanisms of action that are unique to male germ cells. In a well-studied example, cofactors and pathways distinct from those used in somatic tissues mediate the action of CREM in male germ cells. But perhaps the most striking feature concerns the paralogs of somatically expressed transcription factors and of components of the general transcription machinery that act in distinct regulatory mechanisms in both Drosophila and murine spermatogenesis.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalAnimalsCyclic AMP Response Element ModulatorDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsGerm CellsHaploidyMaleMeiosisMiceModels, GeneticSpermatogenesisTranscription Factor TFIIDCyclic AMP Response Element ModulatorDrosophila ProteinsTranscription Factor TFIID

Identifiers

PMID21555408
PMCPMC3119912
OpenAlexW2101062421

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