Ovarian defects in hybrids of the species pair Drosophila virilis and Drosophila texana

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-52

  Lamnissou, Klea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drosophila texana; Drosophila virilis; female hybrid sterility; ovary transplantations

Indexed keywords

VITELLOGENIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; FAT BODY; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILITY; HYBRID; MALE; MATING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; PINOCYTOSIS; VITELLOGENINS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA AMERICANA TEXANA; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS;

EID: 0030909489     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1997)20:1<47::AID-DVG6>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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