The Des-1 protein, required for central spindle assembly and cytokinesis, is associated with mitochondria along the meiotic spindle apparatus and with the contractile ring during male meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 259, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 664-673

  Basu, J ^a   Li, Z ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Central spindle; Contractile ring; Cytokinesis; Mitochondria; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ISOLATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELOPHASE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTAGENESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 0031771233     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050861     Document Type: Article

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