Bazooka regulates microtubule organization and spatial restriction of germ plasm assembly in the Drosophila oocyte.

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Published in Dev Biol on February 10, 2010

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Agata N Becalska1, Elizabeth R Gavis

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1: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

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