The vegetally localized mRNA fatvg is associated with the germ plasm in the early embryo and is later expressed in the fat body

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 137-140

  Chan, Agnes P ^a   Kloc, Malgorzata ^a   Bilinski, Szczepan ^b   Etkin, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fat bodies; Germ plasm; Localized RNA; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; FAT BODY; GERM LAYER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; TADPOLE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO; FAT BODY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA;

EID: 0035214662     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(00)00517-7     Document Type: Article

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