Cell-cell communication in nematode embryos: Differences between Cephalobus spec. and Caenorhabditis elegans

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-34

  Bossinger, Olaf ^a   Schierenberg, Einhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

C elegans; Cell cell interaction; Gap junctions; Nematode; Soma germline

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; FLUORESCENT DYE; LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029805778     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050027     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Barnes TM (1994) OPUS: a growing family of gap junctions poteins. 10:303-305
2. Biggelaar JAM van den, Kühtreiber WM, Serras F, Dorresteijn AWC, Beckhuizen H, Schaap D (1986) Analysis of the cell communication mechanism involved in the induction of the stem cell of the mesodermal bands in embryos of Patella vulgata (Mollusca). Acta Histochem Suppl 12:29-33
3. Bohrmann J, Gutzeit H (1987) Evidence against electrophoresis as the principal mode of protein transport in vitellogenic ovarian follicles of Drosophila. Development 101:279-283
4. Bossinger O, Schierenberg E (1992a) Cell-cell communication in the embryo of Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 151:401-409
5. Bossinger O, Schierenberg E (1992b) Transfer and tissue-specific accumulation of cytoplasmic components in embryos of Caenorhabditis elegans and Rhabditis dolichura in vivo analysts with a low-cost signal enhancement device. Development 114:317-330
6. Bossinger O, Wiegner O, Schierenberg E (1996) Embryonic gut differentiation in nematodes: endocytosis of macromolecules and its experimental inhibition. Roux's Aich Dev Biol (in press)
7. Brenner S (1974) The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 77:71-94
8. Cartwright J, Arnold JM (1980) Intercellular bridges in the embryo of the atlantic squid Loligo pealei. I. Cytoplasmic continuity and tissue differentiation. J Embryol Exp Morphol 57:3-24
9. Cartwright J, Arnold JM (1981) Intercellular bridges in the embryo of the atlantic squid Loligo pealei. II. Formation on the bridge. Cell Motil 1:455-468
10. Cole TS, Schierenberg E (1986) Laser microbeam-induced fixation for electronmicroscopy: visualisation of transient developmental features in nematode embryos. Experientia 42:1046-1048
11. Day DF, Kim D (1992) A novel process for the production of dextrans of selected molecular sizes. Ann NY Acad Sci 672:573-576
12. Edgar LG, Wolf N, Wood WB (1994) Early transcription in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Development 120:443-451
13. Evans TC, Crittenden SL, Kodoyianni V, Kimble J (1994) Translational control of maternal glp-1 mRNA establishes an asymmetry in the C. elegans embryo. Cell 77:183-194
14. Finbow ME, Harrison M, Jones P (1995) Gap junctions: ductin or connexin - which component is the critical one? BioEssays 17:745
15. Ghosh S (1976) The nucleolar structure. Int Rev Cytol 44:1-28
16. Goldstein B (1992) Induction of gut in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Nature 357:255-257
17. Goodall H, Johnson MH (1984) The nature of coupling within the preimplantation mouse embryo. J Embryol Exp Morphol 79:53-76
18. Hutter H, Schnabel R (1994) glp-1 and inductions establishing embryonic axes in C. elegans. Development 120:2051-2064
19. Hutter H, Schnabel R (1995) Specification of anterior-posterior differences within the AB lineage in the C. elegans embryo: a polarising induction. Development 121:1559-1568
20. Jiménez M, Goday C (1993) A centrosome associated antibody from Drosophila melanogaster reveals a new microtubule-dependent structure in the equatorial zone of Parascaris univalens embryos. J Cell Sci 106:719-723
21. King RL, Beams HW (1938) An experimental study of chromatin diminution in Ascaris. J Exp Zool 77:425-443
22. Krieg C, Cole TS, Schierenberg E, Schmitt D, Yoder B, Ehrenstein G von (1978) The cellular anatomy of embryos of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 65:193-215
23. Mahajan-Miklos S, Cooley L (1994) Intercellular cytoplasm transport during Drosophila oogenesis. Dev Biol 165:336-351
24. Marthy HJ, Dale B (1989) Dye-coupling in the early squid embryo. Roux's Arch Dev Biol 198:211-218
25. Mello CC, Draper BW, Priess JR (1994) The maternal genes apx-1 and glp-1 and the establishment of dorsal-ventral polarity in the early C. elegans embryo. Cell 77:95-106
26. Perona R, Bes JC, Vallejo CG (1988) Degradation of yolk in the brine shrimp Artemia. Biochemical and morphological studies on the involvement of the lysosomal svstem. Biol Cell 63:361-366
27. Peters R (1986) Fluorescence microphotolysis to measure nucleoplasmic transport and intercellular mobility. Biochim Biophys Acta 864:305-359
28. Satoh N, Ikegami S (1981) A definite number of aphidicolin-sensitive cell-cyclic events are required for acetylchohnesterase development in the presumptive muscle cells of the ascidian embryos. J Embryol Exp Morphol 61:1-13
29. Schierenberg E (1985) Cell determination during early embryogenesis of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 50:59-68
30. Schierenberg E (1987) Reversal of cellular polarity and early cell-cell interaction in the embryo of Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 122:452-463
31. Schierenberg E, Miwa J, Ehrenstein G von (1980) Cell lineages and developmental defects of temperature-sensitive embryonic arrest mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 76:141-159
32. Schlicht P, Schierenberg E (1991) Establishment of cell lineages in the C. elegans embryo after supression of the first cleavage: support for a concentration-dependent decision mechanism. Roux's Arch Dev Biol 199:437-448
33. Skiba F, Schierenberg E (1992) Cell lineages, developmental timing and pattern formation in embryos of free-living soil nematodes. Dev Biol 151:597-610
34. Sommer RJ, Sternberg PW (1994) Changes of inductions and competence during the evolution of vulva development in nematodes. Science 265:114-118
35. Sternberg PW (1993) Intercellular signaling and signal-transduction in C. elegans. Ann Rev Genet 27:497-521
36. Stewart WW (1978) Functional connections between cells as revealed by dye-coupling with a highly fluorescent naphthalimide tracer. Cell 14:741-759
37. Sulston JE, Horvitz HR (1977) Post-embryonic cell lineages of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 56:110-156
38. Sulston JE, Schierenberg E, White JG, Thomson JN (1983) The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Biol 100:64-119
39. Valdimarsson G, DeSousa PA, Beyer EC, Paul DL, Kidder GM (1991) Zygotic expression of the conncxin43 gene supplies subumts for gap junction assembly during mouse preimplantation development. Mol Reprod Dev 30: 18-26
40. Warner AE (1992) Gap junctions in development - a perspective. Sem Cell Biol 3:81-91
41. Woodruff R, Telfer WH (1980) Electrophoresis of proteins in intercellular bridges. Nature 286:84-86