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The role of Drosophila Merlin in spermatogenesis

BACKGROUND: Drosophila Merlin, the homolog of the human Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) gene, is important for the regulation of cell proliferation and receptor endocytosis. Male flies carrying a Mer(3 )allele, a missense mutation (Met(177)→Ile) in the Merlin gene, are viable but sterile; however, the cau...

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Autores principales: Dorogova, Natalia V, Akhmametyeva, Elena M, Kopyl, Sergei A, Gubanova, Natalia V, Yudina, Olga S, Omelyanchuk, Leonid V, Chang, Long-Sheng
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2253521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18186933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2121-9-1