Onset of C. elegans gastrulation is blocked by inhibition of embryonic transcription with an RNA polymerase antisense RNA

Developmental Biology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 472-483

  Powell Coffman, Jo Anne ^a   Knight, Jennifer ^a   Wood, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERMAPHRODITISM; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030587611     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0232     Document Type: Article

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