Drosophila rae1 is required for male meiosis and spermatogenesis

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 3541-3551

  Volpi, Silvia ^a   Bongiorni, Silvia ^a   Fabbretti, Fabiana ^a   Wakimoto, Barbara T ^b   Prantera, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila melanogaster; Meiosis; Mitotic cell cycle regulator; Rae1; RNA export factor

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AXONEME; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ELONGATION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DROSOPHILA; MALE; MALE STERILITY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPINDLE CELL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC CELL CYCLE REGULATOR; RAE1; RNA-EXPORT FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, RECESSIVE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MATRIX-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 84883328599     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.111328     Document Type: Article

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