Expression of vasa(vas)-related genes in germline cells and totipotent somatic stem cells of planarians

Developmental Biology

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-87

  Shibata, Norito ^a   Umesono, Yoshihiko ^a,b   Orii, Hidefumi ^a   Sakurai, Takashige ^c   Watanabe, Kenji ^a   Agata, Kiyokazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Fukushima Biomed Inst Environ N   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastema; Chromatoid body; Neoblast; PL10; Planarian; Regeneration; Totipotent stem cell; Vasa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTEMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; STEM CELL; TURBELLARIA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0032932098     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9130     Document Type: Article

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