Oocyte polarity depends on regulation of gurken by Vasa

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1723-1732

  Tomancak, Pavel ^a   Guichet, Antoine ^a   Zavorszky, Peter ^a   Ephrussi, Anne ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

gurken; Oogenesis; Polarity; Translation; vasa

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MUTATION; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVARY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA HELICASES; RNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031832688     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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