Female mouse germ cells form synchronously dividing cysts

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3323-3328

  Pepling, Melissa E ^a   Spradling, Allan C ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyst; Mouse germ cell; Oogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GERM CELL; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIVISION; CYSTS; FEMALE; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OVARY; OVUM;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031692012     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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