Paternal RNA contributions in the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote

EMBO Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 1740-1750

  Stoeckius, Marlon ^a   Grün, Dominic ^a   Rajewsky, Nikolaus ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

embryogenesis; epigenetic inheritance; paternal RNA; transgenerational inheritance

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOGENESIS; EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; PATERNAL RNA; TRANSGENERATIONAL INHERITANCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHIMERA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MUTATION; OOCYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84905743193     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embj.201488117     Document Type: Article

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