Germ cell specification and early embryonic patterning in Bombyx mori as revealed by nanos orthologues

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 546-554

  Nakao, Hajime ^a   Matsumoto, Tomoko ^b   Oba, Yuichi ^b   Niimi, Teruyuki ^b   Yaginuma, Toshinobu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MOTH;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GERM CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; BOMBYX; GERM CELLS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BOMBYX MORI; DIPTERA;

EID: 51249104861     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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