Semenogelin II Gene Is Replaced by a Truncated LINE1 Repeat in the Cotton-Top Tamarin1

• Published in: Biology of reproduction Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 420 - 425
• Main Authors: Lundwall, Åke, Olsson, A. Yvonne M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.08.2001
• Subjects: Contents; gene regulation; male reproductive tract; seminal vesicles; sperm motility and transport

The human seminal vesicles secrete two proteins, semenogelin I and semenogelin II, at very high concentrations. It has previously been shown that the cotton-top tamarin (Sanguinus oedipus), a New World monkey, is lacking the semenogelin II gene. We have now determined the nucleotide sequence of DNA...