Clearance of germ granules in the soma.
Germ granules are ribonucleoprotein complexes specifically segregated into germ cell lineages in diverse organisms. Recent studies indicate that multiple mechanisms are involved in the clearance of germ granules and their components in somatic cells in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos.
Sugimoto
Asako
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Laboratory for Developmental Genomics, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology 2-2-3 Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047 Japan. sugimoto@cdb.riken.jp