Closing the (Ran)GAP on segregation distortion in Drosophila

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 108-115

  Kusano, Ayumi ^a,c   Staber, Cynthia ^a,d   Chan, Ho Yin Edwin ^b   Ganetzky, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAN PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; HYPOTHESIS; MEIOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0037319601     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10222     Document Type: Review

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