daughterless-abo-like, a Drosophila maternal-effect mutation that exhibits abnormal centrosome separation during the late blastoderm divisions.

doi:10.1242/dev.110.2.311

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daughterless-abo-like, a Drosophila maternal-effect mutation that exhibits abnormal centrosome separation during the late blastoderm divisions.

Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Oct 1990

Sullivan W, Minden J S, Alberts B M

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daughterless-abo-like (dal) is a maternal-effect semilethal mutation in Drosophila. The nuclear divisions of embryos derived from homozygous dal females are normal through nuclear cycle 10. However, during nuclear cycles 11, 12 and 13, a total of about half of the nuclei in each embryo either fai...

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Animals
Blastoderm
Centrioles
Drosophila
Mitosis
Mutation
Spindle Apparatus

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