The roles of microRNAs and siRNAs in mammalian spermatogenesis.

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Published in Development on September 01, 2016

Authors

Stephanie Hilz1, Andrew J Modzelewski2, Paula E Cohen3, Andrew Grimson4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
2: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
3: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
4: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA agrimson@cornell.edu.

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