Intercellular signalling in Caenorhabditis elegans vulval pattern formation

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 175-183

  Katz, Wendy S ^a   Sternberg, Paul W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; EGF receptor; Growth factor; LIN 12; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0011370278     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1996.0024     Document Type: Article

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