Hypotonic buffer induces meiosis and formation of anucleate cytoplasmic islands in the egg of the two-spotted cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-112

  Sarashina, Isao ^a   Shinmyo, Yohei ^a   Hirose, Ayumi ^a   Miyawaki, Katsuyuki ^a   Mito, Taro ^a   Ohuchi, Hideyo ^a   Horio, Tetsuya ^b   Noji, Sumihare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aphidicolin; Egg activation; Energid; Gryllus bimaculatus; Hypotonic buffer

Indexed keywords

APHIDICOLIN; BUFFER; DNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYPOTONIC SOLUTION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FERTILIZATION; INSECT; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERIZATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; OVUM;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0038331830     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0854.2004.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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