An inductive interaction in 4-cell stage C. elegans embryos involves APX-1 expression in the signalling cell

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1791-1798

  Mickey, Katherine M ^a   Mello, Craig C ^c   Montgomery, Mary K ^d   Fire, Andrew ^d   Priess, James R ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

APX 1; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell cell interactions; Cell fate specification; GLP 1

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHANNELS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0029945359     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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