G proteins are required for spatial orientation of early cell cleavages in C. elegans embryos

Cell

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 619-629

  Zwaal, Richard R ^a,e   Ahringer, Julie ^b,c   Van Luenen, Henri G A M ^a   Rushforth, Alice ^d,f   Anderson, Phil ^d   Plasterk, Ronald H A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030598875     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80135-X     Document Type: Article

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