Programmed cell death in invertebrates

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-38

  Hengartner, Michael O ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL KILLING; CELL PROTECTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030050416     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(96)90007-6     Document Type: Article

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