The egg and the nucleus: A battle for supremacy

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2449-2456

  Gurdon, J B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; EGG; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; XENOPUS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MICE; NOBEL PRIZE; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OVUM; PHYSIOLOGY; XENOPUS;

EID: 84878279540     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.097170     Document Type: Article

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