Isolation of chicken vasa homolog gene and tracing the origin of primordial germ cells

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2741-2750

  Tsunekawa, Naoki ^a,b   Naito, Mitsuru ^c   Sakai, Yasuhiro ^d   Nishida, Takao ^b   Noce, Toshiaki ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chick; Germ plasm; Primordial germ cell; Spectrin

Indexed keywords

RNA HELICASE;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; RNA HELICASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033932880     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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