Germ cell-less expression in zebrafish embryos

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 333-338

  Li, Wenyan ^a   Deng, Fengjiao ^a   Wang, Huannan ^a   Zhen, Yan ^a,b   Xiang, Fang ^a   Sui, Yang ^c   Li, Jianzhen ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Puai Hospital   (China)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

gcl; Germ cell; Primordial germ cell; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; BLASTULA; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; GERM CELL LESS GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTIS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; OVARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA HELICASES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 33744832609     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2006.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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