The Drosophila ATM homologue Mei-41 has an essential checkpoint function at the midblastula transition

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 302-312

  Sibon, Ody C M ^a,c   Laurençon, Anne ^b   Hawley, R Scott ^b   Theurkauf, William E ^a,d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; VITACEAE;

EID: 0033602478     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80138-9     Document Type: Article

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