The formation of syncytia within the visceral musculature of the Drosophila midgut is dependent on duf, sns and mbc

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 85-96

  Klapper, Robert ^a   Stute, Christiana ^b   Schomaker, Oliver ^a   Strasser, Thomas ^a   Janning, Wilfried ^a   Renkawitz Pohl, Renate ^b   Holz, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clonal analysis; Drosophila; Dumbfounded; Founder cells; Fusion competent cells; Myoblast city; Myogenesis; Sticks and stones; Transplantation; Visceral muscles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; MESODERM; METAMORPHOSIS; MIDGUT; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYNCYTIUM;

EID: 0035663645     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(01)00567-6     Document Type: Article

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