Expression of Dazl and Vasa in turtle embryos and ovaries: Evidence for inductive specification of germ cells

Evolution and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 525-534

  Bachvarova, Rosemary F ^a   Crother, Brian I ^b   Manova, Katia ^c   Chatfield, Jodie ^d   Shoemaker, Christina M ^e   Crews, David P ^e   Johnson, Andrew D ^d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PROTEIN; RNA; SPECIALIZATION; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; OVARY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; OVARY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TURTLES;

AMNIOTA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; AVES; BILATERIA; LACERTOIDEA; LEPIDOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; TETRAPODA;

EID: 70349111361     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00360.x     Document Type: Article

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