Tissue-specific developmental expression of OAX, a Xenopus repetitive element

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 94, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 209-212

  Whitford, Kristin L ^a,b   Oakes, Jennifer A ^a,c   Scholnick, Joshua ^a,d   Saha, Margaret S ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Oocyte Activation in Xenopus; Repetitive element; Retroposon; Satellite I DNA; tRNA; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE HINDIII; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RIBONUCLEASES; XENOPUS;

VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034212393     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00307-5     Document Type: Article

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