Specification of germ cell fate in mice

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1436, 2003, Pages 1363-1370

  Saitou, Mitinori ^a   Payer, Bernhard ^a   Lange, Ulrike C ^a   Erhardt, Sylvia ^a   Barton, Sheila C ^a   Surani, M Azim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Germ cell specification; Germ cells; Totipotency; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

GERM CELL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; STELLA;

EID: 0042856397     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1324     Document Type: Review

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