Piwi-expressing hemoblasts serve as germline stem cells during postembryonic germ cell specification in colonial ascidian, Botryllus primigenus

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 603-614

  Sunanaga, Takeshi ^a   Inubushi, Hironori ^a   Kawamura, Kazuo ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ascidian; budding; germline stem cells; hemoblast; Piwi

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PIWI PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLUS PRIMIGENUS; BUDDING; CELL SPECIFICITY; COLONIAL SPECIES; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM LINE; LEUKEMIA; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEM CELLS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; BOTRYLLUS PRIMIGENUS;

EID: 77956205305     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2010.01196.x     Document Type: Article

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