Germ-granule components prevent somatic development in the C. Elegans germline

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 970-975

  Updike, Dustin L ^a,b   Knutson, Andrew Kekupa'A ^a   Egelhofer, Thea A ^a   Campbell, Anne C ^b   Strome, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CHE-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; GLD-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; GLH-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MEX-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; NERVE PROTEIN; PGL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; PGL-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNC-119 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL GRANULE; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GERM CELLS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84899919444     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.015     Document Type: Article

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