Recombination and disjunction in female germ cells of Drosophila depend on the germline activity of the gene Sex-lethal

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5785-5794

  Bopp, Daniel ^a   Schütt, Corina ^a   Puro, Jaakko ^b   Huang, He ^a,c   Nöthiger, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Oogenesis; Recombination; Sex lethal

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONDISJUNCTION, GENETIC; OOCYTES; OVUM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 17344393489     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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