Posterior patterning by the Caenorhabditis elegans even-skipped homolog vab-7

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1120-1130

  Ahringer, Julie ^a,b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C. elegans; HOX genes; lineage analysis; pattern formation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030002058     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.9.1120     Document Type: Article

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