The Drosophila chiffon gene is required for chorion gene amplification, and is related to the yeast Dbf4 regulator of DNA replication and cell cycle

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 4281-4293

  Landis, Gary ^a   Tower, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; chiffon; Dbf4; DNA replication; Drosophila; ORC; Origin; Replicator

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CELL CYCLE; CHORION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE STERILITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHORION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX; OVARY; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

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