Maternal control of a zygotic patterning gene in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 3865-3869

  Ahringer, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

apx 1; Caenorhabditis elegans; glp 1; Heat shock; mex 3; pal 1; Pattern formation; pie 1; skn 1; vab 7

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0030828841     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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