Cytoplasmic flows localize injected oskar RNA in Drosophila oocytes

Current Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 326-337

  Glotzer, Jolanta B ^a   Saffrich, Rainer ^a   Glotzer, Michael ^a   Ephrussi, Anne ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031149332     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(06)00156-4     Document Type: Article

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