The Drosophila pipsqueak gene encodes a nuclear BTB-domain-containing protein required early in oogenesis

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1859-1871

  Horowitz, Heidi ^a   Berg, Celeste A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

BTB; Dominant negative; Drosophila; Oogenesis; pipsqueak; Psq

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; INSECT HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOGENESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029946633     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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