Drosophila germ granules are structured and contain homotypic mRNA clusters

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Trcek, Tatjana ^a   Grosch, Markus ^a   York, Andrew ^b   Shroff, Hari ^b   Lionnet, Timothée ^c   Lehmann, Ruth ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; PROTEIN; RNA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CHIRALITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; HYBRIDIZATION; ILLUMINATION; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRIANGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL GRANULE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DROSOPHILA; GERM CELLS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84938923219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8962     Document Type: Article

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