Dedifferentiation of primary spermatocytes into germ cell tumors in C. elegans Lacking the pumilio-like protein PUF-8

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 134-139

  Subramaniam, Kuppuswamy ^a,b   Seydoux, Geraldine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; GERM CELL TUMOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GERMINOMA; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0037458114     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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