Repression of early zygotic transcription in the germline

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 709-714

  Nakamura, Akira ^a   Shirae Kurabayashi, Maki ^a   Hanyu Nakamura, Kazuko ^a  

^a RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 9; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GASTRULATION; GERM CELL; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR B; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 78649634829     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2010.08.012     Document Type: Review

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