Microtubule actin crosslinking factor 1 regulates the Balbiani body and animal-vegetal polarity of the zebrafish oocyte.

Although of fundamental importance in developmental biology, the genetic basis for the symmetry breaking events that polarize the vertebrate oocyte and egg are largely unknown. In vertebrates, the first morphological asymmetry in the oocyte is the Balbiani body, a highly conserved, transient structu...

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Main Authors: Tripti Gupta, Florence L Marlow, Deborah Ferriola, Katarzyna Mackiewicz, Johannes Dapprich, Dimitri Monos, Mary C Mullins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2924321?pdf=render