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pole plasm

Known as: polar plasm 
Differentiated cytoplasm associated with a pole (animal, vegetal, anterior, or posterior) of an oocyte, egg or early embryo. [GOC:kmv, PMID:17113380]
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
An Oskar-Dependent Positive Feedback Loop Maintains the Polarity of the Drosophila Oocyte
Review
2004
Review
2004
The Balbiani body and germ cell determinants: 150 years later.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
VASA localization requires the SPRY-domain and SOCS-box containing protein, GUSTAVUS.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
A Drosophila melanogaster homologue of Caenorhabditis elegans par-1 acts at an early step in embryonic-axis formation
A Drosophila melanogaster homologue of Caenorhabditis elegans par-1 acts at an early step in embryonic-axis formation 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
The Drosophila CPEB homolog, orb, is required for oskar protein expression in oocytes.
The establishment of polarity axes in the Drosophila egg and embryo depends upon the localization and on-site expression of… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Cytoplasmic flows localize injected oskar RNA in Drosophila oocytes
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
misshapen encodes a protein kinase involved in cell shape control in Drosophila.
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
All components required for the eventual activation of muscle-specific actin genes are localized in the subequatorial region of an uncleaved amphibian egg.
Fertilized Xenopus eggs have been ligated with a hair loop into separate fragments before the first cleavage. The plane of the… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
The autonomous function of germ plasm in a somatic region of the Drosophila egg.
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Increase in nuclear poly(A)-containing RNA at syncytial blastoderm in Drosophila melanogaster embryos.
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