A novel function for the Sm proteins in germ granule localization during C. elegans Embryogenesis

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1502-1506

  Barbee, Scott A ^a   Lublin, Alex L ^a   Evans, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a Program in Cell and Developmental Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL GRANULE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GERM CELL; MACROMOLECULE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GERM CELLS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MORPHOGENESIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 0037015264     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01111-9     Document Type: Article

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