Setting the stage for development: mRNA translation and stability during oocyte maturation and egg activation in Drosophila

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 593-608

  Tadros, Wael ^a   Lipshitz, Howard D ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Egg activation; mRNA stability; mRNA translation; Oocyte maturation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMPHIBIA; BLASTULA; CELL ACTIVATION; DROSOPHILA; ECHINODERM; EMBRYO; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 14644446007     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20297     Document Type: Review

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