Assembly of ring canals in the male germ line from structural components of the contractile ring

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2779-2788

  Hime, Gary R ^a,b   Brill, Julie A ^a   Fuller, Margaret T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actin; Anillin; Cytokinesis; Cytoplasmic myosin II; Drosophila; Fusome; Meiosis; Phosphotyrosine; Ring canal; Septins; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CELL PROTEIN; MYOSIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPITOPES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOSINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOCYTES; TYROSINE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030474931     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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