Microtubule polarity and axis formation in the Drosophila oocyte

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1455-1468

  Steinhauer, Josefa ^a   Kalderon, Daniel ^b  

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

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis formation; Drosophila; Microtubules; Oogenesis; Polarity; RNA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; AXIS; CELL POLARITY; CELL TYPE; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES;

EID: 33646860181     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20770     Document Type: Review

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