The Balbiani Body and Germ Cell Determinants: 150 Years Later

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-36

  Kloc, Malgorzata ^a   Bilinski, Szczepan ^b   Etkin, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; EVOLUTION; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOPLASMIC STRUCTURES; EVOLUTION; GERM CELLS; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; RNA;

EID: 2142819390     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2153(04)59001-4     Document Type: Article

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