Unscrambling butterfly oogenesis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-43

  Carter, Jean Michel ^a   Baker, Simon C ^b   Pink, Ryan ^a   Carter, David RF ^a   Collins, Aiden ^a   Tomlin, Jeremie ^a   Gibbs, Melanie ^c   Breuker, Casper J ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Bioline Reagents Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Drosophila melanogaster; Early embryogenesis; Eco evo devo; Lepidoptera; Maternal effects; Oogenesis; Pararge aegeria; Reproductive physiology; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; TRANSCRIPTOME; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOMBYX MORI; BUTTERFLY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PARARGE AEGERIA; SPECKLED WOOD BUTTERFLY; STEM CELL; VITELLOGENESIS; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; BOMBYX; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PARARGE AEGERIA;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; BUTTERFLIES; DATABASES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; OOGENESIS; OVARY; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 84877817738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-283     Document Type: Article

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