Tosca: A Drosophila gene encoding a nuclease specifically expressed in the female germline

Developmental Biology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 90-100

  Digilio, Filomena A ^a   Pannuti, Antonio ^b   Lucchesi, John C ^c   Furia, Maria ^b   Polito, Lino C ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEASE; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY;

EID: 0030601348     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0200     Document Type: Article

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