Essential role for γ-tubulin in the acentriolar female meiotic spindle of Drosophila

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1809-1819

  Tavosanis, Gaia ^a   Llamazares, Salud ^a   Goulielmos, George ^a   Gonzalez, Cayetano ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

tubulin; Drosophila; Meiosis; MTOC; Mutant

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030897131     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.8.1809     Document Type: Article

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