Transcriptional activation in Drosophila spermatogenesis involves the mutually dependent function of aly and a novel meiotic arrest gene cookie monster

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 563-573

  Jiang, Jianqiao ^a   White Cooper, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Meiosis; Nuclear localisation; Spermatogenesis; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MALE; MALE STERILITY; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037324151     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00246     Document Type: Review

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