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Mary LaLonde1, Hilde Janssens, Suyong Yun

  • 1Department of Pharmacology and Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5140, USA. mary.lalonde@uhmc.sunysb.edu <mary.lalonde@uhmc.sunysb.edu>

BMC Developmental Biology
|December 13, 2006
PubMed
Summary

Phospholipase D (Pld) is crucial for Drosophila embryo cellularization, a key step in development. Its absence disrupts Golgi structure and vesicle transport, leading to developmental arrest.

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