DNA-replication checkpoint control at the Drosophila midblastula transition

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6637, 1997, Pages 93-97

  Sibon, Ody C M ^a   Stevenson, Victoria A ^a   Theurkauf, William E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL CYCLE; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MALE; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

VITACEAE;

EID: 0030744385     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40439     Document Type: Article

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