Involvement of a tissue-specific RNA recognition motif protein in Drosophila spermatogenesis

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2708-2715

  Haynes, Susan R ^a   Cooper, Monica T ^a   Pype, Stefan ^a,b   Stolow, David T ^a,c  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MEDIMMUNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DROSOPHILA; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030953471     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.5.2708     Document Type: Article

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