A critical role for Xdazl a germ plasm-localized RNA, in the differentiation of primordial germ cells in Xenopus

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 447-456

  Houston, Douglas W ^a   King, Mary Lou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ plasm; Localized RNA; Primordial germ cell; RNA binding protein; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; ENDODERM; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OOCYTES; PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; MURINAE; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033981002     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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