pavarotti encodes a kinesin-like protein required to organize the central spindle and contractile ring for cytokinesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1483-1494

  Adams, Richard R ^a   Tavares, Alvaro A M ^a   Salzberg, Adi ^b,c   Bellen, Hugo J ^b   Glover, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cytokinesis; Drosophila; Kinesin like protein; Polo kinase

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032523956     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.10.1483     Document Type: Article

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