Control and integration of cell signaling pathways during C. elegans vulval development

BioEssays

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 473-480

  Sundaram, Meera ^a   Han, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

EID: 0030160592     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950180609     Document Type: Article

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