Multiple Levels of Posttranscriptional Control Lead to Germ Line-Specific Gene Expression in the Zebrafish

Functional messenger RNAs are produced by SP6in vitrotranscription of cloned cDNAs

1984 • 1,533 citations

Zebrafish vasa homologue RNA is localized to the cleavage planes of 2- and 4-cell-stage embryos and is expressed in the primordial germ cells

1997 • 598 citations

Mutations that suppress the thermosensitivity of green fluorescent protein

1996 • 529 citations

Expression cloning of Siamois, a xenopus homeobox gene expressed in dorsal-vegetal cells of blastulae and able to induce a complete secondary axis

1995 • 521 citations

A zebrafish nanos-related gene is essential for the development of primordial germ cells

2001 • 479 citations

Zebrafish vasa RNA but Not Its Protein Is a Component of the Germ Plasm and Segregates Asymmetrically before Germline Specification

2000 • 383 citations

Whole-mount in situ hybridizationon zebrafish embryos using a mixture of digoxigenin- and fluorescein-labelled probes

1994 • 382 citations

Germ Cells

1999 • 348 citations

RNA LOCALIZATION IN DEVELOPMENT

1998 • 341 citations

Soma-germline asymmetry in the distributions of embryonic RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans

1994 • 340 citations

The function and regulation of vasa-like genes in germ-cell development.

2000 • 333 citations

Localization of vasa protein to the Drosophila pole plasm is independent of its RNA-binding and helicase activities

1994 • 328 citations

Germline development in vertebrates and invertebrates

1999 • 274 citations

Joint action of two RNA degradation pathways controls the timing of maternal transcript elimination at the midblastula transition in Drosophila melanogaster

1999 • 226 citations

Asymmetric Segregation of PIE-1 in C. elegans Is Mediated by Two Complementary Mechanisms that Act through Separate PIE-1 Protein Domains

2000 • 193 citations

Identification of tissues and patterning events required for distinct steps in early migration of zebrafish primordial germ cells

1999 • 164 citations

Launching the germline in Caenorhabditis elegans: regulation of gene expression in early germ cells

1999 • 130 citations

Vasa protein expression and localization in the zebrafish

2000 • 85 citations

A zebrafish vasa morphant abolishes Vasa protein but does not affect the establishment of the germline

2001 • 53 citations