Development: Asymmetric cell division in the Drosophila nrevous system

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 772-779

  Jan, Yuh Nung ^a   Jan, Lily Yeh ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

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EID: 0035513733     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35097516     Document Type: Article

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