Elaboration of the messenger transport organizer pathway for localization of RNA to the vegetal cortex of Xenopus oocytes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 119-130

  Kloc, Malgorzata ^b   Larabell, Carolyn ^a   Etkin, Laurence D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CORTEX; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030602010     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0289     Document Type: Article

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