The PAX gene egl-38 mediates developmental patterning in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 3919-3928

  Chamberlin, Helen M ^a   Palmer, Robert E ^b   Newman, Anna R ^b,d   Sternberg, Paul W ^b   Baillie, David L ^c   Thomas, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell lineage; Paired domain; Pattern formation; PAX genes

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-CELL-SPECIFIC ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030856327     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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