New insights into placozoan sexual reproduction and development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Eitel, Michael ^a   Guidi, Loretta ^b   Hadrys, Heike ^a,c   Balsamo, Maria ^b   Schierwater, Bernd ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SPERM ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEIN; SPERMADHESIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENOME; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PLACOZOA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA; PLACOZOA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; OOCYTES; PLACOZOA; REPRODUCTION; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 79956265891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019639     Document Type: Article

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