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Drosophila oogenesis: versatile spn doctors
1Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, 540 First Avenue, New York, 10016, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|February 18, 1999
Abstract:
Recent work on Drosophila oogenesis has uncovered connections between cell-cycle checkpoints and pattern formation. Genes of the spindle class, which encode double-strand break repair enzymes and RNA helicases, affect oocyte polarity and the decision whether to differentiate as an oocyte or a nurse cell.