Functional analysis of the drosophila embryonic germ cell transcriptome by RNA interference

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Jankovics, Ferenc ^a   Henn, László ^a   Bujna, Ágnes ^a   Vilmos, Péter ^a   Spirohn, Kerstin ^b,c   Boutros, Michael ^b   Erdélyi, Miklós ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; PEBBLE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FASCETTO GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; MEI P26 GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PEBBLE GENE; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GERM CELLS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MITOSIS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84902504383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098579     Document Type: Article

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