Localized PEM mRNA and Protein Are Involved in Cleavage-Plane Orientation and Unequal Cell Divisions in Ascidians

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1014-1025

  Negishi, Takefumi ^a   Takada, Tatsuki ^a   Kawai, Narudo ^a   Nishida, Hiroki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; DEVBIO

Indexed keywords

EGG PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CENTROSOME; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EGG PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MITOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI;

EID: 34250184132     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.047     Document Type: Article

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