Wnt signaling polarizes an early C. elegans blastomere to distinguish endoderm from mesoderm

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 695-705

  Thorpe, Christopher J ^a   Schlesinger, Ann ^a   Clayton Carter, J ^a   Bowerman, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; MESODERM; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030747773     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80530-9     Document Type: Article

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