The β-catenin homolog BAR-1 and LET-60 Ras coordinately regulate the Hox gene lin-39 during Caenorhabditis elegans vulval development

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3667-3680

  Eisenmann, David M ^a,c   Maloof, Julin N ^b   Simske, Jeffrey S ^a,d   Kenyon, Cynthia ^b   Kim, Stuart K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; BAR 1; Caenorhabditis elegans; Hox; LET 60 Ras; Vulva; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE RAS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; VULVA;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BODY PATTERNING; CADHERINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0031685774     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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