Germ plasm assembly and germ cell migration in Drosophila

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 1997, Pages 1-11

  Rongo, C ^a,b,c   Broihier, H Tarczy ^a,c   Moore, L ^a,c   Van Doren, M ^a   Forbes, A ^a   Lehmann, R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GERM CELL; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL MOTION; GONAD; INSECT CELL; MIDGUT; PRECURSOR; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031462459     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1997.062.01.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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