Recent advances in understanding signal transduction pathways in worms and flies

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-238

  Duffy, Joseph B ^a,b   Perrimon, Norbert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029969397     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(96)80070-6     Document Type: Article

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