DDX4 (VASA) is conserved in germ cell development in marsupials and monotremes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 733-743

  Hickford, Danielle E ^a   Frankenberg, Stephen ^a   Pask, Andrew J ^b   Shaw, Geoff ^a   Renfree, Marilyn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

DDX4 splice variants; Developmental biology; Gametogenesis; Germ cell genes; Germ cells; Platypus; Primordial germ cells; Spermatogenesis; Tammar wallaby

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ARGINYLGLYCYLGLYCINE; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN 4; ENZYME VARIANT; TRIPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EUTHERIAN; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERM CELL; GERM CELL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLATYPUS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPLICING DEFECT; TAMMAR WALLABY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; ECHIDNA; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GONADS; ISOENZYMES; MACROPODIDAE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLATYPUS; POLYADENYLATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA;

EID: 80053327256     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.091629     Document Type: Article

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