A screen for genetic loci required for hypodermal cell and glial-like cell development during Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 207-226

  Chanal, Philippe ^a   Labouesse, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

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ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 0030971543     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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