Analysis of cell movement and signalling during ring formation in an activated Gα1 mutant of Dictyostelium discoideum that is defective in prestalk zone formation

Developmental Biology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-90

  Rietdorf, Jens ^a   Siegert, Florian ^a   Dharmawardhane, Suranganie ^b   Firtel, Richard A ^b   Weijer, Cornelis J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MOTION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EMBRYO; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031042267     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8447     Document Type: Article

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