vasa is required for GURKEN accumulation in the oocyte, and is involved in oocyte differentiation and germline cyst development

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1569-1578

  Styhler, Sylvia ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^a,b   Swan, Andrew ^a   Suter, Beat ^a   Lasko, Paul ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axis patterning; Drosophila; Oogenesis; RNA localization; vasa (vas)

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVARY CYST; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOPLASM; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN CYSTS; RNA HELICASES; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031804321     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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