Regulation and Function of Maternal Gene Products During the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition in Drosophila

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-84

  Laver, John D ^a   Marsolais, Alexander J ^a   Smibert, Craig A ^a   Lipshitz, Howard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Gene expression profiling; Maternal mRNA; MicroRNA; Posttranscriptional regulation; Pumilio; RNA localization; RNA stability; RNA binding protein; Smaug; Translational repression; Zelda; Zygotic genome activation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84946476579     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2015.06.007     Document Type: Chapter

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