Polarizing animal cells via mRNA localization in oogenesis and early development

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-18

  Kumano, Gaku ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Early development; Fate determination; MRNA localization; Oogenesis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL MATURATION; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84856003867     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2011.01301.x     Document Type: Review

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