A germ-cell odyssey: Fate, survival, migration, stem cells and differentiation. Meeting on germ cells

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 352-357

  Hubbard, E Jane Albert ^a   Reijo Pera, Renee A ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; JANUS KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; STAT PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM LINE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; OVUM; SPERMATOZOA; STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; JANUS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037764827     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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