Changes in bicoid mRNA Anchoring Highlight Conserved Mechanisms during the Oocyte-to-Embryo Transition

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1055-1061

  Weil, Timothy T ^a   Parton, Richard ^b   Davis, Ilan ^b   Gavis, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; DEVBIO; RNA

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANURA;

EID: 51749125934     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.046     Document Type: Article

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