The role of Drosophila Merlin in spermatogenesis

BMC Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Dorogova, Natalia V ^a   Akhmametyeva, Elena M ^b   Kopyl, Sergei A ^a   Gubanova, Natalia V ^a   Yudina, Olga S ^a   Omelyanchuk, Leonid V ^a   Chang, Long Sheng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERLIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MERLIN, DROSOPHILA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE STERILITY; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TELOPHASE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION;

ALLIUM CEPA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEUROFIBROMIN 2; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 39749198280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2121-9-1     Document Type: Article

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