"Germ Cells" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The reproductive cells in multicellular organisms at various stages during GAMETOGENESIS.
| Descriptor ID |
D005854
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A05.360.490 A11.497
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| Concept/Terms |
Germ Cells- Germ Cells
- Cell, Germ
- Cells, Germ
- Germ Cell
- Germ-Line Cells
- Cell, Germ-Line
- Cells, Germ-Line
- Germ Line Cells
- Germ-Line Cell
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Germ Cells" by people in Profiles.
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Testis- and ovary-expressed polo-like kinase transcripts and gene duplications affect male fertility when expressed in the Drosophila melanogaster germline. G3 (Bethesda). 2025 Jan 08; 15(1).
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Uninvited guests: how transposable elements take advantage of Drosophila germline stem cells, and how stem cells fight back. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2020 02; 37:49-56.
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QTL mapping of natural variation reveals that the developmental regulator bruno reduces tolerance to P-element transposition in the Drosophila female germline. PLoS Biol. 2018 10; 16(10):e2006040.
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p53 is required for female germline stem cell maintenance in P-element hybrid dysgenesis. Dev Biol. 2018 02 15; 434(2):215-220.
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Retrotransposons: Stowaways in the Primordial Germline. Curr Biol. 2017 10 09; 27(19):R1066-R1068.
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Dysregulation of Notch and ERa signaling in AhR-/- male mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 10 18; 113(42):11883-11888.