The molecular machinery of germ line specification

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-18

  Ewen Campen, Ben ^a   Schwager, Evelyn E ^a   Extavour, Cassandra G M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE INDUCED MATURATION PROTEIN 1; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; PIWI PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GERM LINE; INSECT GENETICS; METAZOON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 73449148729     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21091     Document Type: Review

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