Requirement for a noncoding RNA in Drosophila polar granules for germ cell establishment

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5295, 1996, Pages 2075-2079

  Nakamura, Akira ^a   Amikura, Reiko ^b   Mukai, Masanori ^b   Kobayashi, Satoru ^b   Lasko, Paul F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL MIGRATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE LOCATION; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOGENESIS; OVARY; OVUM; RNA; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 0030461398     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5295.2075     Document Type: Article

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