Bazooka provides an apical cue for inscuteable localization in Drosophila neuroblasts

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6761, 1999, Pages 544-547

  Wodarz, Andreas ^a   Ramrath, Andreas ^a   Kuchinke, Ute ^a   Knust, Elisabeth ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DROSOPHILA; NEUROBLAST; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; PROSPERO;

EID: 0033518223     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/990128     Document Type: Article

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