Germline stem cells

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Spradling, Allan ^a   Fuller, Margaret T ^b   Braun, Robert E ^c   Yoshida, Shosei ^d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAMMAL; OVARY; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVARY; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 84863914281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a002642     Document Type: Article

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