Tracing of Xenopus tropicalis Germ Plasm and Presumptive Primordial Germ Cells with the Xenopus tropicalis DAZ-Like Gene

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 367-372

  Sekizaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Takahashi, Shuji ^a,c   Tanegashima, Kousuke ^a   Onuma, Yasuko ^a,d   Haramoto, Yoshikazu ^a   Asashima, Makoto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

DAZ like gene; Germ plasm; Migration; Presumptive primordial germ cell; RNP; Xenopus tropicalis; Xtcat 2; Xtdazl

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; TADPOLE; TESTIS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; XTDAZL GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 0942298155     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10448     Document Type: Article

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