The Xenopus Sox3 gene expressed in oocytes of early stages

Gene

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 101-107

  Koyano, Satoru ^a   Ito, Michihiko ^a   Takamatsu, Nobuhiko ^a   Takiguchi, Sumiyo ^a   Shiba, Tadayoshi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; Cloning; Gene structure; Sry

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLUS GALLUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030894179     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00790-1     Document Type: Article

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