Joint action of two RNA degradation pathways controls the timing of maternal transcript elimination at the midblastula transition in Drosophila melanogaster

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2610-2620

  Bashirullah, Arash ^a,c   Halsell, Susan R ^c,e   Cooperstock, Ramona L ^a,b   Kloc, Malgorzata ^d   Karaiskakis, Angelo ^a   Fisher, William W ^a,c,f   Weili, Fu ^a,g   Hamilton, Jill K ^a   Etkin, Laurence D ^d   Lipshitz, Howard D ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f EXELIXIS INC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Localization; Midblastula transition (MBT); Stability; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OVUM; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033522447     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.9.2610     Document Type: Article

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