mago nashi mediates the posterior follicle cell-to-oocyte signal to organize axis formation in Drosophila

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 3197-3207

  Newmark, Phillip A ^a,b   Mohr, Stephanie E ^a   Gong, Lei ^a   Boswell, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Drosophila; Follicle; Germ plasm; mago nashi; Oocyte; Signaling

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; KINESIN; MICE; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAGO;

EID: 0030886559     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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