Drosophila wee1 has an essential role in the nuclear divisions of early embryogenesis

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 159-166

  Price, Donald ^a   Rabinovitch, Simon ^a   O'Farrell, Patrick H ^b   Campbell, Shelagh D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0034013369     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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