The C. elegans Myt1 ortholog is required for the proper timing of oocyte maturation

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 697-709

  Burrows, Anna E ^a   Sceurman, Bonnielin K ^a   Kosinski, Mary E ^b   Richie, Christopher T ^a   Sadler, Penny L ^a,d   Schumacher, Jill M ^c   Golden, Andy ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Cdk1; Meiotic maturation; Myt1; Oocyte maturation; Wee1

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; PROTEIN MYT1; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPAUSE; FERTILIZATION; GENE DELETION; GERM LINE; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; ORTHOLOGY; OVULATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; RNA INTERFERENCE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CYCLIN B; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELLS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MATURATION-PROMOTING FACTOR; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; TUBULIN; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33645075175     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02241     Document Type: Article

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