Germlines: Argonautes Go Full Cycle

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Grant Downton, Robert ^a   Dickinson, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; GERM CELLS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35548967164     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.09.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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