Ascidian follicle cells: Multifunctional adjuncts to maturation and development

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 677-686

  Lambert, Charles C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Flotation; Follicle cell; Germinal vesicle; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDE;

ASCIDIACEA; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EGG; FAMILY; FERTILIZATION; GERMINAL VESICLE; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVULATION; POLYSPERMY; REVIEW; TADPOLE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM, TRUE; MALE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349311728     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2009.01127.x     Document Type: Review

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