The phylogenetic origin of oskar coincided with the origin of maternally provisioned germ plasm and pole cells at the base of the holometabola

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Lynch, Jeremy A ^a   Özüak, Orhan ^a   Khila, Abderrahman ^b   Abouheif, Ehab ^b   Desplan, Claude ^c   Roth, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; OSKAR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM LINE; GERMPLASM; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OSKAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ZYGOTE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; ENDOPTERYGOTA; HEXAPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 79955625143     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002029     Document Type: Article

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