Maternal Nanos and Pumilio regulate zygotic vasa expression autonomously in the germ-line progenitors of Drosophila melanogaster embryos

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 545-552

  Sano, Hiroko ^a   Mukai, Masanori ^a,b   Kobayashi, Satoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gene regulation; Germ line; nanos; vasa

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN NANOS; PROTEIN PUMILIO; PROTEIN VAS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LINE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PROMOTER REGION; STEM CELL; ZYGOTE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MITOSIS; MOTHERS; OOGENESIS; OVARY; RNA HELICASES; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034795752     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2001.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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