Boule-like genes regulate male and female gametogenesis in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano

Developmental Biology

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-132

  Kuales, Georg ^a   De Mulder, Katrien ^a,b   Glashauser, Jade ^a   Salvenmoser, Willi ^a   Takashima, Shigeo ^c   Hartenstein, Volker ^c   Berezikov, Eugene ^b   Salzburger, Walter ^d   Ladurner, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boule; Flatworms; Germline; Hermaphrodite; Planaria; Platyhelminthes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOULE 1 GENE; BOULE 2 GENE; BOULE 3 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80051472450     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.06.030     Document Type: Article

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