bag-of-marbles and benign genial cell neoplasm act in the germline to restrict proliferation during Drosophila spermatogenesis

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4361-4371

  Gönczy, Pierre ^a,b   Matunis, Erika ^a   DiNardo, Stephen ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

bag of marbles; bam; Benign gonial cell neoplasm; bgcn; Drosophila; Proliferation control; Spermatogenesis; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GERM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL;

EID: 0030713341     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.124.21.4361     Document Type: Article

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