Windbeutel, a gene required for dorsoventral patterning in Drosophila, encodes a protein that has homologies to vertebrate proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 120-131

  Konsolaki, Mary ^a   Schüpbach, Trudi ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Endoplasmic reticulum; Oogenesis; Pattern formation; Secretion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FERTILIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031882304     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.1.120     Document Type: Article

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