A genomic approach to myoblast fusion in Drosophila

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 475, Issue , 2008, Pages 299-314

  Estrada, Beatriz ^a   Michelson, Alan M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cell fusion; Drosophila; Gene expression profiling; Genomics; Mesoderm; Muscle development; Myoblast; Myogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934435857     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-250-2_17     Document Type: Article

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