Germ cell survival in C. elegans and C. remanei is affected when the dead box rna helicases Vbh-1 or Cre-VBH-1 are silenced

Genesis

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 801-818

  Salinas, Laura S ^a   Franco Cea, Ari ^a   Láscarez Lagunas, Laura I ^a   Villanueva Chimal, Emmanuel ^a   Maldonado, Ernesto ^a   Navarro, Rosa E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; C. elegans; C. remanei; Cre VBH 1; Germline; P granules; RNA helicases; VASA; VBH 1

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN CRE VBH 1; PROTEIN VBH 1; RNA HELICASE; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRE VBH 1 GENE; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELL; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; VBH 1 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE SILENCING; GONADS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI;

EID: 84870053192     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22043     Document Type: Article

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