Control of oocyte growth and meiotic maturation in caenorhabditis elegans

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2013, Pages 277-320

  Kim, Seongseop ^a   Spike, Caroline ^a   Greenstein, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

G protein signaling; Major sperm protein; Meiosis; Meiotic chromosome segregation; Meiotic maturation signaling; Meiotic resumption; Meiotic spindle; Oogenesis

Indexed keywords

AURORA B KINASE; CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIN B; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; CYTOPLASMIC POLYADENYLATION ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; INHIBITORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN 1; LIPOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN VAB 1; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FERTILIZATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; MEI 1 GENE; MEI 2 GENE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVULATION; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPERM; SPINDLE CELL; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 84867507462     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_10     Document Type: Article

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