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In the round spermatids (RO), 10,271 m6A peaks associated with 10,109 genes were tested from WT mice and 9,559 m6A peaks associated with 10,138 genes were tested from KO mice. The peaks were mainly concentrated in the coding region and the stop codon of the GGAC motif. In addition, enrichment analysis showed significant m6A methylation genes in related pathways in spermatogenesis. Furthermore, we conducted joint analyses of the m6A methylome and RNA transcription, suggesting an m6A regulatory mechanism of gene expression. Finally, seven differentially expressed mRNAs from RNA-seq data in both PA and RO were verified using qPCR. 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