Drosophila R2D2 mediates follicle formation in somatic tissues through interactions with Dicer-1

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 125, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 475-485

  Kalidas, Savitha ^a   Sanders, Charcacia ^a   Ye, Xuecheng ^a   Strauss, Tamara ^a   Kuhn, Mary ^b   Liu, Qinghua ^a   Smith, Dean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Female fertility; Oogenesis; RNAi; Somatic development

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DCR 1; PROTEIN DICER 1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN R2D2; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMITE; SUBFERTILITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; OVARY; RNA HELICASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 41949088520     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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