The maternal to zygotic transition in animals and plants

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2008, Pages 89-100

  Baroux, C ^a   Autran, D ^b   Gillmor, C S ^c   Grimanelli, D ^b   Grossniklaus, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; MICRORNA;

CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CHROMATIN; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEGRADATION; GENOME; HETEROZYGOTE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; TIME FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VASCULAR PLANT; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; SEEDS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 68549104471     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2008.73.053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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