LIN-12 protein expression and localization during vulval development in C. elegans

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3101-3109

  Levitan, Diane ^a   Greenwald, Iva ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Cell cell interactions; EGF; LIN 12; Notch; Ras; Vulva

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VULVA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031715177     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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