Cytoplasmic localization and reorganization in ascidian eggs: Role of postplasmic/PEM RNAs in axis formation and fate determination

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 501-518

  Makabe, Kazuhiro W ^a   Nishida, Hiroki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POSTPLASMIC PEM RNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ASCIDIACEA; BLASTOMA; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROSOME; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO INDUCTION; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; GENE; GERM CELL; MACHO 1 GENE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLAR BODY; POSTERIOR VEGETAL AXIS; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOPLASM; EGG PROTEINS; OOCYTES; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 84886247065     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.54     Document Type: Review

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