Medaka piwi is essential for primordial germ cell migration

Current Molecular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1040-1049

  Li, M ^a,b   Hong, N ^a   Gui, J ^b   Hong, Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell migration; Embryo; Germ cell; Motility; Piwi

Indexed keywords

PIWI PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MIGRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO SELECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; ORYZIAS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNTENY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GERM CELLS; MALE; MORPHOLINOS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNTENY;

DANIO RERIO; ORYZIAS LATIPES; ORYZIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866556925     PISSN: 15665240     EISSN: 18755666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156652412802480853     Document Type: Article

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