Cell fate inclination within 2-cell and 4-cell mouse embryos revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

Genome Research

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1787-1796

  Biase, Fernando H ^a   Cao, Xiaoyi ^a   Zhong, Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BLASTOMA; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPIGENETICS; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; WEB BROWSER; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GADD45A PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928227321     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.177725.114     Document Type: Article

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