Specification of the anteroposterior axis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1467-1474

  Goldstein, Bob ^a   Hird, Steven N ^a,b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis specification; Caenorhabditis elegans; Fertilisation; Rhabditidae; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; RHABDITIDAE;

EID: 0029996765     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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