Functional equivalence of germ plasm organizers.

The proteins Oskar (Osk) in Drosophila and Bucky ball (Buc) in zebrafish act as germ plasm organizers. Both proteins recapitulate germ plasm activities but seem to be unique to their animal groups. Here, we discover that Osk and Buc show similar activities during germ cell specification. Drosophila...

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Main Authors: Pritesh Krishnakumar, Stephan Riemer, Roshan Perera, Thomas Lingner, Alexander Goloborodko, Hazem Khalifa, Franck Bontems, Felix Kaufholz, Mohamed A El-Brolosy, Roland Dosch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-11-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6219760?pdf=render