Failure of pronuclear migration and repeated divisions of polar body nuclei associated with MTOC defects in polo eggs of Drosophila

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 113, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3341-3350

  Riparbelli, M G ^a   Callaini, G ^a   Glover, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Meiotic spindle; Polar body; Polo oocyte; Sperm aster

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; KINESIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL POLARITY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EGG; FEMALE; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; SPERM;

ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE-ORGANIZING CENTER; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES; OVUM; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPERMATOZOA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0033785511     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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