EST analysis of gene expression in early cleavage-stage sea urchin embryos
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EST analysis of gene expression in early cleavage-stage sea urchin embryos.
A set of 956 expressed sequence tags derived from 7-hour (mid-cleavage) sea urchin embryos was analyzed to assess biosynthetic functions and to illuminate the structure of the message population at this stage. About a quarter of the expressed sequence tags represented repetitive sequence transcripts typical of early embryos, or ribosomal and mitochondrial RNAs, while a majority of the remainder...
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عنوان ژورنال: Development
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1477-9129,0950-1991
DOI: 10.1242/dev.126.17.3857