Germ cell development in Drosophila

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 1996, Pages 365-391

  Williamson, Anne ^a   Lehmann, Ruth ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

germ plasm; migration; polar granules; pole cells; primordial germ cells

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN B; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; OOGENESIS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0029768665     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.12.1.365     Document Type: Review

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