Germ cell specification requires zygotic mechanisms rather than germ plasm in a basally branching insect

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 835-842

  Ewen Campen, Ben ^a   Donoughe, Seth ^a   Clarke, Donald Nat ^a,b   Extavour, Cassandra G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GERM CELL; GRYLLIDAE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; GERM CELLS; GRYLLIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ENSIFERA (INSECTS); EXOPTERYGOTA; GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84878019661     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.063     Document Type: Article

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