Postfertilization deadenylation of mRNAs in Xenopus laevis embryos is sufficient to cause their degradation at the blastula stage

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 209-218

  Audic, Yann ^a   Omilli, Francis ^a   Osborne, H Beverley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA STRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031016162     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.1.209     Document Type: Article

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