The vasa-like gene, olvas, identifies the migration path of primordial germ cells during embryonic body formation stage in the medaka, Oryzias latipes

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 317-326

  Shinomiya, Ai ^a   Tanaka, Minoru ^b   Kobayashi, Tohru ^b   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^b   Hamaguchi, Satoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fish; Germ line; Medaka; Primordial germ cell migration; Vasa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL MIGRATION; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; GONAD; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; SOMATIC CELL; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FISH PROTEINS; GERM CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; ORYZIAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA HELICASES;

HEXAPODA; LATIPES; ORYZIAS LATIPES;

EID: 0033840459     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2000.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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