Male sterile mutant casanova gives clues to mechanisms of sperm-egg interactions in Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 248-259

  Perotti, Maria Elisa ^a   Cattaneo, Fabio ^a   Pasini, Maria E ^a   Vernì, Fiammetta ^b   Hackstein, Johannes H P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

N acetylgluco saminidase; Egg fertilization; Gamete interactions; Insects

Indexed keywords

ALPHA MANNOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FERTILIZATION; FLUOROMETRY; GAMETE; GENE MAPPING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; DETERGENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GOLD COLLOID; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MALE; SEPHAROSE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034855620     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1085     Document Type: Article

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