Germ line development in the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria: Vasa as a marker

Developmental Biology

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 100-118

  Chang, Chun Che ^a,b   Dearden, Peter ^a,c   Akam, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antibody; Arthropod; Embryogenesis; Germ cell; Gonad; Orthoptera; Ovary; Testis; vasa

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN SGVASA; PROTEIN VASA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; GASTRULATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; GONAD; GRASSHOPPER; HEART; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CORTEX; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORTHOLOGY; OVARY; PLASMA; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036435521     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2002.0840     Document Type: Article

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