Functional analysis of the Drosophila Diaphanous FH protein in early embryonic development

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1887-1897

  Afshar, Katayoun ^a   Stuart, Bridget ^b   Wasserman, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellularization; Cytoskeleton; Diaphanous; Drosophila; Formin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOKINE; PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0034105436     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.127.9.1887     Document Type: Article

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