Evolutionary changes of developmental mechanisms in the absence of cell lineage alterations during vulva formation in the Diplogastridae (Nematoda)

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 243-251

  Sommer, Ralf J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution; Nematode; Novelty; Pristionchus; Vulva development

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EPIDERMIS CELL; EVOLUTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VULVA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS; CELL FUSION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; PRISTIONCHUS; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS;

EID: 0031029198     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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