germ cell-less Is required only during the establishment of the germ cell lineage of Drosophila and has activities which are dependent and independent of its localization to the nuclear envelope

Developmental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 288-297

  Robertson, Sarah E ^a   Dockendorff, Thomas C ^a   Leatherman, Judith L ^a   Faulkner, Debora L ^a   Jongens, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ cell specification; Germ plasm; Germline; Myristoylation; Pole cell; Primordial germ cell

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL SURVIVAL; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; MUTANT; MYRISTYLATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0033571029     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9453     Document Type: Article

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