Wnt signaling and an APC-related gene specify endoderm in early C. elegans embryos

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 707-716

  Rocheleau, Christian E ^a   Downs, William D ^b,c   Lin, Rueyling ^b,c   Wittmann, Claudia ^a   Bei, Yanxia ^a   Cha, Yoon Hee ^b,c   Ali, Mussa ^a   Priess, James R ^b,c   Mello, Craig C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL POLARITY; COLON POLYPOSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ERETHIZON DORSATUM;

EID: 0030829387     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80531-0     Document Type: Article

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