Modulation of gene expression in the embryonic digestive tract of C. elegans

Developmental Biology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 276-288

  Fukushige, Tetsunari ^b   Schroeder, Dana F ^b   Allen, Fran L ^b   Goszczynski, Barbara ^b   McGhee, James D ^a,b  

^a Health Sciences Centre Calgary   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EMBRYO; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0000522440     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0218     Document Type: Article

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