Maternal nanos regulates zygotic gene expression in germline progenitors of Drosophila melanogaster

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 153-158

  Asaoka, Miho ^a   Sano, Hiroko ^a   Obara, Yoko ^a   Kobayashi, Satoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Enhancer trap line; Gene regulation; Germline; Nanos; Pole cells

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; STEM CELL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GERM CELLS; INSECT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031674024     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00164-6     Document Type: Article

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