The maternal par genes and the segregation of cell fate specification activities in early Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 3815-3826

  Bowerman, Bruce ^a   Ingram, Malene K ^a,c   Hunter, Craig P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior posterior asymmetry; Cell fate specification; Cell polarity; Cortical cytoplasm; glp 1; mex 3; pal 1; par 1; par 2; par 3; par 4; skn 1

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL POLARITY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUTATION; PHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030780536     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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