Ectopic expression of the Drosophila Bam protein eliminates oogenic germline stem cells

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 3651-3662

  Ohlstein, Benjamin ^a   McKearin, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bag of marbles protein; Bam; Differentiation factor; Drosophila; Ectopic expression; Germ cell; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELL ORGANELLE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; HEAT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; HEAT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELLS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030776177     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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