Vasa and the germ line lineage in a colonial urochordate

Developmental Biology

Volumn 331, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 113-128

  Rosner, Amalia ^a   Moiseeva, Elizabeth ^a   Rinkevich, Yuval ^a   Lapidot, Ziva ^a   Rinkevich, Baruch ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Botryllus schlosseri; BS Pl10; BS Vasa; Germ cells; Oct4; Piwi; Urochordate

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLYCYLGLUTAMYLPROLYLPROLYLPROLYLGLYCYLLYSYLPROLYLALANYLASPARTYLASPARTYLALANYLGLYCYLLEUCYLVALINE; MESSENGER RNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PIWI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRESS; COLONIAL SPECIES; COLONY FORMING CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLIDAE; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI;

EID: 67649243774     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.04.025     Document Type: Article

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