Vasa and nanos are coexpressed in somatic and germ line tissue from early embryonic cleavage stages through adulthood in the polychaete Capitella sp. I

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 218, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 453-463

  Dill, Kariena K ^a   Seaver, Elaine C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ line; Nanos; Primordial germ cell; Spiralia; Vasa

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR VASA;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GAMETE; GAMETOGENESIS; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GERM LINE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; PHYLOGENY; POLYCHAETA; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; CAPITELLA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; POLYCHAETA; SPIRALIA;

EID: 51049116827     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-008-0236-x     Document Type: Article

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