Spatiotemporal localization of germ plasm RNAs during zebrafish oogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 279-289

  Kosaka, Kyoko ^a   Kawakami, Koichi ^b   Sakamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Inoue, Kunio ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cleavage furrows; DAZ like (dazl); Germ plasm; Hermes; Mitochondrial cloud; Nanos1; Oogenesis; RNA localization; Vasa; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GERMPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA BINDING; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; FEMALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; OVUM; RNA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 33947189708     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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