cdh-3, a gene encoding a member of the cadherin superfamily, functions in epithelial cell morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 4149-4157

  Pettitt, Jonathan ^a,b,c   Wood, William B ^b   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cadherins; Epithelial morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPITHELIUM CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; ECTODERM; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REPORTER; GENITALIA, FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0030452908     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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