Australin: A chromosomal passenger protein required specifically for Drosophila melanogaster male meiosis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 521-535

  Gao, Shan ^a   Giansanti, Maria Grazia ^b   Buttrick, Graham J ^a   Ramasubramanyan, Sharada ^a   Auton, Adam ^a   Gatti, Maurizio ^b   Wakefield, James G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALINE; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; HISTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MUTANT; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC CODE; MALE FERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPINDLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; KINETOCHORES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PROMETAPHASE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPERMATOCYTES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 39049090591     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200708072     Document Type: Article

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