Genetic analysis demonstrates a direct link between Rho signaling and nonmuscle myosin function during Drosophila morphogenesis

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1253-1265

  Halsell, Susan R ^a   Chu, Benjamin I ^a   Kiehart, Daniel P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; RHO FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSINS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 0033911382     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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