Spatial arrangement of intra-nucleolar rDNA chromatin in amplified Xenopus oocyte nucleoli: Structural changes precede the onset of rDNA transcription

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 263-272

  Spring, Herbert ^a   Meissner, Bärbel ^a,c   Fischer, Roger ^a   Mouzaki, Despina ^a,b   Trendelenburg, Michael F ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy electron microscopy; rDNa transcription; S1 transcript analysis; Xenopus oocyte nucleoli

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMATIN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029881067     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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