Medaka vasa is required for migration but not survival of primordial germ cells

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 126, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 366-381

  Li, Mingyou ^a,b   Hong, Ni ^b   Xu, Hongyan ^b   Yi, Meisheng ^b   Li, Changming ^c   Gui, Jianfang ^a   Hong, Yunhan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cell migration; Germ cell culture; Morpholino; Motility; Oryzias latipes; Primordial germ cell; vasa

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYO; GENE; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASA GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GERM CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; ORYZIAS; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE;

EID: 67349115416     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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