par-6, a gene involved in the establishment of asymmetry in early C. elegans embryos, mediates the asymmetric localization of PAR-3

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3133-3140

  Watts, Jennifer L ^a   Etemad Moghadam, Bijan ^a   Guo, Su ^a   Boyd, Lynn ^a   Draper, Bruce W ^b   Mello, Craig C ^b,c   Priess, James R ^b   Kemphues, Kenneth J ^d  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Assymmetry; Axis; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell polarity; Embryogenesis; par 6; Suppression

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL GRANULE; CELL POLARITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DROSOPHILA; HELMINTH PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0029850113     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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