Drosophila centrosomin protein is required for male meiosis and assembly of the flagellar axoneme

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 455-467

  Li, Kaijun ^a,b   Xu, Eugene Yujun ^a   Cecil, Jeffrey K ^a   Turner, F Rudolf ^a   Megraw, Timothy L ^a   Kaufman, Thomas C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CENTROSOMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AXONEME; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CENTRIOLE; CENTROSOME; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032550180     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.141.2.455     Document Type: Article

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