A Xenopus DAZ-like gene encodes an RNA component of germ plasm and is a functional homologue of Drosophila boule

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-180

  Houston, Douglas W ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Maines, Jean Z ^b   Wasserman, Steven A ^b   King, Mary Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boule; DAZ; DAZL; Germ plasm; Localized RNA; RNA binding protein; Spermatogenesis; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FROG; GENE; MALE; MALE STERILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031932686     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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