Genetic networks that regulate development in Dictyostelium cells

Microbiological Reviews

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 135-150

  Loomis, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL TYPE; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; SARCODINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; SARCODINA;

EID: 0029869044     PISSN: 01460749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.60.1.135-150.1996     Document Type: Review

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