The role of BicD, Egl, Orb and the microtubules in the restriction of meiosis to the Drosophila oocyte

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2785-2794

  Huynh, Jean René ^a   St Johnston, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early oogenesis; Meiosis; Microtubule; Oocyte determination; Recombination; Synaptonemal complex

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CELL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOPLASM; DEMECOLCINE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MUTATION; OOCYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; GOES;

EID: 0033944402     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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