RtoA links initial cell type choice to the cell cycle in Dictyostelium

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3677-3685

  Wood, Salli A ^a   Ammann, Robin R ^a   Brock, Debra A ^a   Li, Lily ^a   Spann, Timothy ^a,b   Gomer, Richard H ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell fate; Cell type ratio; Dictyostelium; Eukaryotic differentiation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; VIDEO RECORDING;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0029855247     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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