The Drosophila stonewall gene encodes a putative transcription factor essential for germ cell development

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 937-950

  Clark, Kathleen A ^a   McKearin, Dennis M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Drosophila oogenesis; Nurse cell differentiation; Oocyte differentiation; Stonewall transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0029983387     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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