The Dr-nanos gene is essential for germ cell specification in the planarian Dugesia ryukyuensis

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 165-171

  Nakagawa, Haruka ^a   Ishizu, Hirotsugu ^a   Chinone, Ayako ^a   Kobayashi, Kazuya ^a   Matsumoto, Midori ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germ cell specification; Germline stem cell; Nanos; Planarian

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATORY APPARATUS; DUGESIA RYUKYUENSIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENITAL SYSTEM; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; GERMLINE STEM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NANOS GENE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TURBELLARIA; X IRRADIATION; YOLK GLAND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; PLANARIANS; REGENERATION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

DUGESIA RYUKYUENSIS; METAZOA; PLANARIA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 84859153696     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.113433hn     Document Type: Article

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