Transport of germ plasm on astral microtubules directs germ cell development in Drosophila

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 439-448

  Lerit, Dorothy A ^a   Gavis, Elizabeth R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN; MESSENGER RNA; NANOS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; VAS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTROSOME; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CENTROSOME; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DYNEINS; GERM CELLS; KINESIN; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 79952815118     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.01.073     Document Type: Article

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