Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Complex germline and somatic mutation processes at a haploid human minisatellite shown by single-molecule analysis.

  PMID 18929582 · PMC2599865 · Mutation research · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Overall MSY1 mutation frequencies in sperm (2.68%) and blood (1.88%) are not significantly different

  sperm donor hgr1b3 single-molecule fluorescent radioactive

• Human spermatozoa contain multiple targets for protein S-nitrosylation: an alternative mechanism of the modulation of sperm function by nitric oxide?

  PMID 17683036 · PMC2777308 · Proteomics · 2007 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Human sperm proteins undergo S-nitrosylation upon exposure to NO donors, detectable by the biotin switch assay

  percoll-washed fixed pooled excised biotin situ streptavidin-agarose

• sgcocaller and comapr: personalised haplotype assembly and comparative crossover map analysis using single-gamete sequencing data.

  PMID 36107768 · PMC9723612 · Nucleic acids research · 2022 · 8 claims · 2 setups

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  sgcocaller is a command-line toolkit (implemented in Nim) that directly processes large single-cell DNA-sequencing alignment files to construct personalised haplotypes and call crossovers in gametes.

  sperm apricot single-gamete

• Alginate oligosaccharides improve germ cell development and testicular microenvironment to rescue busulfan disrupted spermatogenesis.

  PMID 32194870 · PMC7053202 · Theranostics · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 79

  AOS rescues busulfan-disrupted spermatogenesis in vivo by increasing the proportion of germ cells (spermatocytes and spermatids)

  icr spermatozoa testis plasma single-cell computer-assisted immunofluorescence

• msPIPE: a pipeline for the analysis and visualization of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data.

  PMID 36123620 · PMC9487059 · BMC bioinformatics · 2022 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  msPIPE is a new end-to-end pipeline integrating pre-processing, alignment & methylation calling, and downstream DNA methylation analysis (profiling, HMR, DMR, functional enrichment) with publication-quality figure output for WGBS data

  blood rod sperm old wgbs hypomethylated differential

• Genome amplification of single sperm using multiple displacement amplification.

  PMID 15942023 · PMC1143700 · Nucleic acids research · 2005 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  MDA was applied for the first time to whole-genome amplification of single sperm cell DNA

  single sperm pcr sanger real-time

• Phosphoproteomics: new insights into cellular signaling.

  PMID 16168091 · PMC1242200 · Genome biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Protein kinases are one of the largest gene families in humans and mice, accounting for 1.7% of the human genome

  yeast hela beta2-adrenergic erk phosphopeptide targeted silac

• Genomic and proteomic techniques applied to reproductive biology.

  PMID 11574051 · PMC138959 · Genome biology · 2001 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Knockout of the E6-AP (UBE3A) gene reduces testis and prostate size in male mice and compromises estradiol action in females

  e6-ap fgf9-deficient jsd one-cell gene germ-cell interference

• Exposure to the widely used herbicide atrazine results in deregulation of global tissue-specific RNA transcription in the third generation and is associated with a global decrease of histone trimethylation in mice.

  PMID 27655631 · PMC5175363 · Nucleic acids research · 2016 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Embryonic ATZ exposure affects meiosis, spermiogenesis and reduces spermatozoa number in F3 generation male mice

  testis dissociated epididymis chip-seq strand-specific h&e

• Single-cell analysis of testicular bacterial microbiome changes during aging and effect on reproductive capacity in mice.

  PMID 41438041 · PMC12719757 · iScience · 2025 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  INVADE-seq simultaneously captures host and bacterial transcripts to map bacteria-host interactions across diverse testicular cell types at single-cell resolution

  testes testis young testicular invade-seq histology sperm

• Single duplex DNA sequencing with CODEC detects mutations with high sensitivity.

  PMID 37106072 · PMC10181940 · Nature genetics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CODEC concatenates both strands of an original DNA duplex into a single NGS read pair via an adapter quadruplex and strand-displacing extension, enabling single-duplex resolution

  cfdna na12878 genomic sperm targeted whole-genome whole-exome

• Absence of the TAP2 human recombination hotspot in chimpanzees.

  PMID 15208713 · PMC423135 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  The human TAP2 recombination hotspot is absent from the homologous region in western chimpanzees.

  western haplotype males simulated resequencing ld-based sperm

• The evolution and genomic landscape of CGB1 and CGB2 genes.

  PMID 17055150 · PMC2599907 · Molecular and cellular endocrinology · 2007 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  CGB1 and CGB2 arose via insertion of a DNA fragment (736/724 bp) replacing part of the ancestral hCGβ promoter and 5'-UTR, creating a novel exon 1 and causing a frameshift that produces a completely different 132-aa protein unrelated to hCGβ

  genomic great cgb1 chimpanzee pcr population hka

• A homozygous R262Q mutation in the gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor presenting as constitutional delay of growth and puberty with subsequent borderline oligospermia.

  PMID 16968799 · PMC1865483 · The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2006 · 7 claims · 8 setups

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  A homozygous R262Q GNRHR mutation was identified in two brothers from an Asian Indian family, one of 11 families studied with delayed puberty or discordant IHH/delayed puberty siblings.

  blood serum younger brothers mutational hormone 24-hour

• A highly polymorphic insertion in the Y-chromosome amelogenin gene can be used for evolutionary biology, population genetics and sexing in Cetacea and Artiodactyla.

  PMID 18925953 · PMC2580767 · BMC genetics · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A 460–465 bp insertion is present in intron 4 of the Amel-Y locus in most Cetartiodactyla lineages (cetaceans and ruminants) but absent in pig

  cetacea amel-y amel-x cetartiodactyla pcr sanger molecular

• A re-annotation pipeline for Illumina BeadArrays: improving the interpretation of gene expression data.

  PMID 19923232 · PMC2817484 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  A Perl-based pipeline that BLASTs/BLATs Illumina probe sequences against genomes and transcript databases (RefSeq, UCSC Known Genes, UniGene/GenBank, Ensembl) can classify probes by quality grade (Perfect/Good/Bad/No match) and is applicable across 8 BeadArray platforms and other array types

  maqc hepatocytes japanese illeum microarray dasl sequence

• 'Chumanzee' evolution: the urge to diverge and merge.

  PMID 17129363 · PMC1794591 · Genome biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  Human-chimpanzee divergence was not a simple clean split; evidence suggests hybridization continued after an initial split.

  chimpanzee rheboon comparative artificial cytogenetic

• Human methylome variation across Infinium 450K data on the Gene Expression Omnibus.

  PMID 33937763 · PMC8061458 · NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2021 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Approximately two-thirds of compiled HM450K samples are from blood, one-quarter from brain, and roughly one-third from cancer patients.

  hm450k seven annotated illumina beadarray model-based

• Unraveling the role of bacteria with heritable versus non-heritable relative abundance in the gut on boar semen quality.

  PMID 41199168 · PMC12590650 · Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · 2025 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  39 heritable and 91 non-heritable bacterial genera were identified in the boar gut based on heritability of relative abundance

  fecal blood boar gut 16s snp gas

• Epigenetics and phenotypic variation in mammals.

  PMID 16688527 · PMC3906716 · Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Epigenetic modifications are mitotically heritable, but the fidelity of meiotic/transgenerational inheritance in mammals is poorly understood and evidence in mammals is scanty.

  mammalian mhc chromosomes embryonic methylation high-throughput chip