Coordinating Cell Cycle Remodeling with Transcriptional Activation at the Drosophila MBT

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 113-148

  Blythe, Shelby A ^a   Wieschaus, Eric F ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Chromatin; DNA Damage Response; Drosophila; Midblastula transition; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; INSECT GENOME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME, INSECT; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84946485961     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2015.06.002     Document Type: Chapter

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