A nanos homolog in leech

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1771-1780

  Pilon, Marc ^a   Weisblat, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate determinant; Helobdella robusta; Leech; Nanos

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEECH; MESODERM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEECHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GLOSSIPHONIIDAE; HELOBDELLA ROBUSTA; HIRUDINIDA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030976420     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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