Bazooka recruits inscuteable to orient asymmetric cell divisions in Drosophila neuroblasts

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6761, 1999, Pages 548-551

  Schober, Markus ^a   Schaefer, Matthias ^a   Knoblich, Juergen A ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; MUTATION; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033518187     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/990135     Document Type: Article

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