Drosophila male meiosis as a model system for the study of cytokinesis in animal cells

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 609-617

  Giansanti, Maria Grazia ^a   Bonaccorsi, Silvia ^a   Bucciarelli, Elisabetta ^a   Gatti, Maurizio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central spindle; Contractile ring; Cytokinesis; Drosophila; Meiosis

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATID;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035735908     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.26.609     Document Type: Review

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