Lineage-specific regulators couple cell lineage asymmetry to the transcription of the Caenorhabditis elegans POU gene unc-86 during neurogenesis

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1395-1410

  Baumeister, Ralf ^a,b   Liu, Yanxia ^a,b   Ruvkun, Gary ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

asymmetric cell division; C. elegans; neurogenesis; POU homeo domain protein; transcriptional regulation; unc 86

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; HOMEOBOX; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029768755     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.11.1395     Document Type: Article

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