BMP signaling and the maintenance of primordial germ cell identity in Drosophila embryos.

The specification of primordial germ cells (PGCs) and subsequent maintenance of germ-line identity in Drosophila embryos has long been thought to occur solely under the control of cell-autonomous factors deposited in the posterior pole plasm during oogenesis. However, here we document a novel role f...

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Main Authors: Girish Deshpande, Elinor Willis, Sandip Chatterjee, Robert Fernandez, Kristen Dias, Paul Schedl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24551179/?tool=EBI