Identification of asymmetrically localized transcripts along the animal-vegetal axis of the Xenopus egg

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 511-521

  Kataoka, Kensuke ^a   Tazaki, Akira ^a,b   Kitayama, Atsushi ^b   Ueno, Naoto ^b   Watanabe, Kenji ^a   Mochii, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA array; Localized RNA; Maternal transcript; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EGG; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OVUM; RNA, MESSENGER; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 29344452867     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2005.00826.x     Document Type: Article

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