Isolation of germline cells from Drosophila embryos by flow cytometry

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-57

  Shigenobu, Shuji ^a,b   Arita, Kayo ^a   Kitadate, Yu ^a,b   Noda, Chiyo ^a   Kobayashi, Satoru ^a,b,c  

^a OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

EST; Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS); Germ cell; Pole cell; Ribosomal protein; Vasa

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENOME; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; GONAD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL LINE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELLS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33645035073     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2006.00845.x     Document Type: Article

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