A deficiency screen for zygotic loci required for establishment and patterning of the epidermis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 185-206

  Terns, Rebecca M ^a,c   Kroll Conner, Peggy ^a   Zhu, Jiangwen ^a,b   Chung, Sooyoun ^a   Rothman, Joel H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPIDERMIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIDERMIS; GENES, LETHAL; HOMOZYGOTE; PHARYNX; PHENOTYPE; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030895720     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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