From egg to gastrula: How the cell cycle is remodeled during the drosophila mid-blastula transition

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 269-294

  Farrell, Jeffrey A ^a   O'Farrell, Patrick H ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cell cycle; Drosophila; G2; maternal zygotic transition; MBT; replication

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; DNA REPLICATION TIMING; DROSOPHILA; EGG; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME; INTERPHASE; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEX DETERMINATION; TITRIMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NONMAMMALIAN EMBRYO; OVARY;

ANIMALS; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OVARY;

EID: 84913584453     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-111212-133531     Document Type: Article

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