※ Nuage introduction

    In recent years, molecular identification of the components of these germ cell substances has revealed that the molecular components overlap somewhat and thus germ plasm/granule and nuage have at times been treated as largely equivalent (1). In primary oocytes of some animals, maternal germ plasm first assembles within an ancient perinuclear oocyte structure known as the Balbiani body and later is found at the oocyte cortex, the posterior pole in some insects or the vegetal pole of some vertebrates. Nuage is the perinuclear granulo-fibrillar electron-dense material that has been identified through histological and ultrastructural examination of oocytes from invertebrates through vertebrates and that is present in various conformations in cells of the male and female gametes (1).

Reference
1. Marlow, F. (2015) Primordial Germ Cell Specification and Migration. F1000Res, 16;4. PMID: 26918157

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No.	Status	DrLLPS ID	Ensemble Gene ID	UniProt Accession	Gene Name
1		LLPS-Gaga-1940	ENSGALG00000046180.2	A0A1L1RVQ1
2		LLPS-Gaga-1901	ENSGALG00000014713.7	F1N991	DDX4
3		LLPS-Gaga-2303	ENSGALG00000034574.2	A0M8U3	GASZ