Caenorhabditis elegans HOM-C genes regulate the response of vulval precursor cells to inductive signal

Developmental Biology

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 150-161

  Clandinin, Thomas R ^a   Katz, Wendy S ^a,b   Sternberg, Paul W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TISSUE INDUCTION; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0031081233     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.8471     Document Type: Article

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