Expression data from mouse germline stem (GS), multipotent germline stem (mGS), and embryonic stem (ES) cells.

A single spermatogonial stem cell can aquire pluripotentiality but that conversion into a pluripotent cell type is accompanied by loss of spermatogenic potential.

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Kanatsu-Shinohara M, Lee J, Inoue K, Ogonuki N, Miki H, Toyokuni S, Ikawa M, Nakamura T, Ogura A, Shinohara T