Meanings
adjectivepresyncytial (not comparable)
- not comparablePrior to the formation of a syncytium
To test if Gw proteins respond to puromycin, we injected Drosophila embryos expressing Gw:EGFP either at the presyncytial blastoderm stage (when no GW-bodies are present) or at cellularization and observed GW-body dynamics over a twenty-minute time course.
2016 March 2, “GW-Bodies and P-Bodies Constitute Two Separate Pools of Sequestered Non-Translating RNAs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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