CudA: A Dictyostelium gene with pleiotropic effects on cellular differentiation and slug behaviour

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 2719-2728

  Fukuzawa, Masashi ^a   Hopper, Neil ^a   Williams, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CudA; Culmination; Dictyostelium; Prestalk cells

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCODINA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

DICTYOSTELIUM; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GASTROPODA; SARCODINA;

EID: 0030767963     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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