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Formation of the Drosophila ovarian ring canal inner rim depends on cheerio.
Genetics - 1 Apr 1997
Robinson D N, Smith-Leiker T A, Sokol N S, Hudson A M, Cooley L
Abstract excerpt
In Drosophila oogenesis, the development of a mature oocyte depends on having properly developed ring canals that allow cytoplasm transport from the nurse cells to the oocyte. Ring canal assembly is a step-wise process that transforms an arrested cleavage furrow into a stable intercellular bridge by the addition of several proteins. Here we describe a new gene wc named cheerio that provides a critical function...
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