Three-dimensional ultrastructural analysis of RNA distribution within germinal granules of Xenopus

Developmental Biology

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 79-93

  Kloc, Malgorzata ^a   Dougherty, Matthew T ^b   Bilinski, Szczepan ^c   Chan, Agnes P ^a   Brey, Eric ^d,f   King, Mary Lou ^e   Patrick Jr , Charles W ^f   Etkin, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d Rice University   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ plasm; Germinal granules; Mitochondrial cloud localized RNA; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DEADSOUTH; PROTEIN XCAT2; PROTEIN XDAZL; PROTEIN XPAT; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL GRANULE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GERM CELL; GERMINAL GRANULE; GERMPLASM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOPUS;

EID: 0036145850     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0488     Document Type: Article

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