※ 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-Orl-0407	ENSORLG00000028103.1	H2MZ30	asz1
2		LLPS-Orl-0096	ENSORLG00000020672.2	A0A3B3HMV7	ddx4
3		LLPS-Orl-0190	ENSORLG00000002506.2	A0A3B3HCA6	ddx6
4		LLPS-Orl-0971	ENSORLG00000004833.2	H2LJ98	tdrd1