Temporal pattern formation by heterochronic genes

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue , 1997, Pages 611-34

  Slack, Frank ^a   Ruvkun, Gary ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Evolution; LIN 14; LIN 28; LIN 4

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EVOLUTION; GROWTH; HUMANS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGI; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031468448     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.31.1.611     Document Type: Review

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