A role for vasa in regulating mitotic chromosome condensation in drosophila

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-44

  Pek, Jun Wei ^a   Kai, Toshie ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VAS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MITOSIS; MUTATION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

MUS; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 79151478478     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.051     Document Type: Article

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