The KavarD dominant female-sterile mutations of Drosophila reveal a role for the maternally provided α-tubulin4 isoform in cleavage spindle maintenance and elongation

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 273, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 283-289

  Venkei, Zsolt ^a   Szabad, János ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Tubulin; Dominant negative mutation; Drosophila; Maternal effect; Spindle

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FEMALE STERILITY; GENE MUTATION; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MUTATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRANSGENES; TUBULIN;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 23744508800     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-1109-x     Document Type: Article

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