Comparative genomics approach to the expression of figα, one of the earliest marker genes of oocyte differentiation in medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Gene

Volumn 423, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-187

  Kanamori, Akira ^a   Toyama, Keiko ^a   Kitagawa, Sachiko ^a   Kamehara, Aya ^a   Higuchi, Tomoya ^a   Kamachi, Yusuke ^b   Kinoshita, Masato ^c   Hori, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fugu genome; GFP; Oogenesis; Transcription; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FACTOR IN THE GERMLINE ALPHA GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; ORYZIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUFFER FISH; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOMICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; ORYZIAS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANURA; ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE; TAKIFUGU; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODON; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 51249093651     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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