Drosophila argonaute-2 is required early in embryogenesis for the assembly of centric/centromeric heterochromatin, nuclear division, nuclear migration, and germ-cell formation

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1680-1685

  Deshpande, Girish ^a   Calhoun, Gretchen ^a   Schedl, Paul ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MYOSINS; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 23044470630     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1316805     Document Type: Article

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