Role of Bicaudal-D in patterning the Drosophila egg chamber in mid-oogenesis

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3577-3586

  Swan, Andrew ^a   Suter, Beat ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Bicaudal D (Bic D); Cytoskeleton; Drosophila; Egg chamber; Follicle cell; Nurse cell; Oogenesis; RNA localization

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHORION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT HORMONES; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029905131     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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