l(3)malignant brain tumor and Three Novel Genes Are Required for Drosophila Germ-Cell Formation

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1889-1900

  Yohn, Christopher B ^a,b   Pusateri, Leslie ^a   Barbosa, Vitor ^a   Lehmann, Ruth ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Favrille Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINASE;

ARTICLE; BEBRA GENE; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; MALE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OSKAR GENE; OUT OF SYNC GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHACKLETON GENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GERM CELLS; MALE; MITOSIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0347361693     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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