Control of mRNA stability and translation during Drosophila development

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 541-549

  Cooperstock, Ramona L ^a   Lipshitz, Howard D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic polyadenylation; Deadenylation; RNA degradation; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001374935     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1997.0179     Document Type: Article

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