Apparent continuity between the messenger transport organizer and late RNA localization pathways during oogenesis in Xenopus

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-106

  Kloc, Malgorzata ^a   Etkin, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial patterning; Development; Oocyte polarity; RNA localization; Vegetal cortex; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CENTROSOME; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUBULIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0031959898     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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