orb Is required for anteroposterior and dorsoventral patterning during Drosophila oogenesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 614-628

  Christerson, Lori B ^a   McKearin, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dorsoventral; oogenesis; polarity; posterior group; RNA binding; RNA localization

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0028294177     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.5.614     Document Type: Article

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