The Drosophila germarium: Stem cells, germ line cysts, and oocytes

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 1997, Pages 25-34

  Spradling, A C ^a   De Cuevas, M ^a   Drummond Barbosa, D ^a   Keyes, L ^a   Lilly, M ^a   Pepling, M ^a   Xie, T ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FUSOME; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GERM LINE; GERM LINE CYST; OOCYTE; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA;

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SPECTRIN;

EID: 0031448233     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1997.062.01.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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