The germ cell-specific RNA binding protein RBM46 is essential for spermatogonial differentiation in mice

• Natoya J. Peart ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Natoya J. Peart, Taylor A. Johnson

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7264-062X

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• Taylor A. Johnson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Natoya J. Peart, Taylor A. Johnson

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5014-5943

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• Sungkyoung Lee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1943-9120

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• Matthew J. Sears,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Fang Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9945-8123

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• Huijuan Feng,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Yocelyn Recinos,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7377-8660

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• Yoseph Barash,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3005-5048

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• Chaolin Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Systems Biology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Brian P. Hermann,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0503-3616

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• P. Jeremy Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2311-4089

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• Christopher B. Geyer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: geyerc@ecu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2974-3871

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• Russ P. Carstens

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Merck & Co, Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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