Drosophila tudor is essential for polar granule assembly and pole cell specification, but not for posterior patterning

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 164-170

  Thomson, Travis ^a   Lasko, Paul ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Germ cell; Polar granule; Tudor

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA TUDOR; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; GERM CELL; GRANULE CELL; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLAR GRANULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 10344225641     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20079     Document Type: Article

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