Regulation of interneuron function in the C. elegans thermoregulatory pathway by the ttx-3 LIM homeobox gene

Neuron

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 345-357

  Hobert, Oliver ^a   Mori, Ikue ^b   Yamashita, Yukiko ^b   Honda, Hidehiro ^b   Ohshima, Yasumi ^b   Liu, Yanxia ^a   Ruvkun, Gary ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUSION; HOMEOBOX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0030765073     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80944-7     Document Type: Article

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