The Drosophila TGF-α-like protein Gurken: Expression and cellular localization during Drosophila oogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-113

  Neuman Silberberg, F Shira ^a   Schüpbach, Trudi ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Confocal; Dorsal ventral axis; Drosophila; Oogenesis; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN GURKEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030273457     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-4773(96)00567-9     Document Type: Article

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