Cloning and characterization of a vasa-like gene in rainbow trout and its expression in the germ cell lineage

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 364-371

  Yoshizaki, Goro ^a   Sakatani, Shigeko ^a   Tominaga, Haruo ^a   Takeuchi, Toshio ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; DEAD protein; Fish; Primordial germ cell; RNA helicase; Vasa

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA HELICASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAINBOW TROUT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELEOST; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; OVARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA HELICASES; RNA, ANTISENSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0034055668     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(200004)55:4<364::AID-MRD2>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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