Spectrosomes and fusomes anchor mitotic spindles during asymmetric germ cell divisions and facilitate the formation of a polarized microtubule array for oocyte specification in Drosophila

Developmental Biology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-94

  Deng, Wei ^a   Lin, Haifan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DROSOPHILA; GERM CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031239690     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8669     Document Type: Article

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