The initiation of basal disc formation in Dictyostelium discoideum is an early event in culmination

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 753-760

  Jermyn, Keith ^a   Traynor, David ^a,b   Williams, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

glucuronidase; Basal disc; Culmination; Dictyostelium discoideum; ecmA gene; ecmB gene; Prestalk cells

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; DICTYOSTELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030008154     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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