Article
The E2F cell cycle regulator is required for Drosophila nurse cell DNA replication and apoptosis.
Mechanisms of development - 1 Dec 2002
Royzman Irena, Hayashi-Hagihara Aki, Dej Kimberley J, Bosco Giovanni, Lee Janice Y, Orr-Weaver Terry L
Abstract excerpt
During Drosophila oogenesis nurse cells become polyploid, enabling them to provide the developing oocyte with vast amounts of maternal messages and products. The nurse cells then die by apoptosis. In nurse cells, as in many other polyploid or polytene tissues, replication is differentially contro...
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