Genetic analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans MAP kinase gene mpk-1

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-117

  Lackner, Mark R ^a,b   Kim, Stuart K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031717482     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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