Boule is present in fish and bisexually expressed in adult and embryonic germ cells of Medaka

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Xu, Hongyan ^a   Li, Zhendong ^a   Li, Mingyou ^a   Li, Wang ^a   Hong, Yunhan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULE PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; DAZL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BOLL PROTEIN, HUMAN; DAZL PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SYNTENY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ORYZIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 67650514309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006097     Document Type: Article

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