Exploring embryonic germ line development in the water flea, Daphnia magna, by zinc-finger-containing VASA as a marker

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 669-678

  Sagawa, Kazunori ^a   Yamagata, Hideo ^a   Shiga, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artemia; Branchiopod; Cladocera; Crustacea; Daphnia; DEAD box; Germ line cells; Moina; RNA helicase; VASA; vasa; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RNA; RNA HELICASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTEMIA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLEA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTESTINES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA HELICASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 20444370641     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.modgep.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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