Next generation organelles: Structure and role of germ granules in the germline

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 610-623

  Gao, Ming ^a   Arkov, Alexey L ^a  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PIWI PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BALBIANI BODY; CELL GRANULE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SOMATIC CELL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GERM CELLS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STEM CELLS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84881545245     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22115     Document Type: Article

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