Coupling of zygotic transcription to mitotic control at the Drosophila mid-blastula transition

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2101-2110

  Lu, Xuemin ^a   Li, Jennifer M ^b   Elemento, Olivier ^a   Tavazoie, Saeed ^a   Wieschaus, Eric F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Drosophila; Mid blastula transition; Nucleocytoplasmic ratio; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PARAMETERS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIPLOIDY; DNA CONTENT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAPLOIDY; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC RATIO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DIPLOIDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HAPLOIDY; MITOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 68049095684     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.034421     Document Type: Article

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