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Caenorhabditis elegans glp-4 Encodes a Valyl Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 13 Oct 2015
Rastogi Suchita, Borgo Ben, Pazdernik Nanette, Fox Paul, Mardis Elaine R, Kohara Yuji, Havranek Jim, Schedl Tim
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Germline stem cell proliferation is necessary to populate the germline with sufficient numbers of cells for gametogenesis and for signaling the soma to control organismal properties such as aging. The Caenorhabditis elegans gene glp-4 was identified by the temperature-sensitive allele bn2 where mutants raised at the restrictive temperature produce adults that are essentially germ cell deficient, containing only a...
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