Morphogenesis of the Drosophila fusome and its implications for oocyte specification

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2781-2789

  De Cuevas, Margaret ^a   Spradling, Allan C ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anillin; Drosophiia; Fusome; Germline; Oogenesis; Polarity; Ring canal; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CYST; DROSOPHILA; MITOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0031707026     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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