Notch signaling controls germline stem cell niche formation in the Drosophila ovary

Development

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1071-1080

  Song, Xiaoqing ^a   Call, Gerald B ^a,c   Kirilly, Daniel ^a,b   Xie, Ting ^a,b  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Germ line; Niche; Notch; Ovary; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; OOGENESIS; OVARY; OVUM; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 34247382563     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.003392     Document Type: Article

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