Medaka dead end encodes a cytoplasmic protein and identifies embryonic and adult germ cells

Gene Expression Patterns

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 541-548

  Liu, Lixiu ^a   Hong, Ni ^a   Xu, Hongyan ^a   Li, Mingyou ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Purwanti, Yovita ^a   Yi, Meisheng ^a   Li, Zhendong ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Hong, Yunhan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

dnd; Fluorescent in situ hybridization; Germ cells; Oryzias latipes; RNA binding protein

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DEAD END PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FISH; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GERM CELL; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORTHOLOGY; ORYZIAS; OVARY CELL; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGONIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZIAS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DANIO RERIO; ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE; PISCES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67650520930     PISSN: 1567133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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