Pathway to Totipotency: Lessons from Germ Cells

Cell

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 891-904

  Seydoux, Geraldine ^a   Braun, Robert E ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL RENEWAL; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GASTRULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GERM CELL; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751204468     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.11.016     Document Type: Review

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