Introduction to germ cell development in caenorhabditis elegans

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 757, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-16

  Pazdernik, Nanette ^a   Schedl, Tim ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; C. elegans; Fertilization; Gametogenesis; Germ cell; Germline stem cell; Meiosis; Meiotic recombination; Reproduction; Sex determination; Somatic gonad

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; LIFE CYCLE; MEIOSIS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84867555709     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4015-4_1     Document Type: Review

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