Balbiani body, nuage and sponge bodies - The germ plasm pathway players

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 341-348

  Kloc, Malgorzata ^a   Jedrzejowska, Izabela ^b   Tworzydlo, Waclaw ^c   Bilinski, Szczepan M ^c  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Balbiani body; Nurse cells; Oocyte; Yolk nucleus

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BALBIANI BODY; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHELICERATE; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GERM CELL; MODEL; MORPHOGENESIS; MYRIAPODA; NONHUMAN; NUAGE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; REVIEW; SPONGE BODY; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OVARY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; DANIO RERIO; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; OVARY;

EID: 84904057771     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: 18735495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2013.12.003     Document Type: Review

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