Expression profiling of rainbow trout testis development identifies evolutionary conserved genes involved in spermatogenesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spermatogenesis is a late developmental process that involves a coordinated expression program in germ cells and a permanent communication between the testicular somatic cells and the germ-line. Current knowledge regarding molecular factors driving male germ cell proliferation and differentiation in vertebrates is still limited and mainly based on existing data from rodents and human. Fish with a marked reproductive cycle and a germ cell development in synchronous cysts have proven to be choice models to study precise stages of the spermatogenetic development and the germ cell-somatic cell communication network. In this study we used 9K cDNA microarrays to investigate the expression profiles underlying testis maturation during the male reproductive cycle of the trout, On

SUBMITTER: Rolland AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2786911 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature