The Pristionchus HOX gene Ppa-lin-39 inhibits programmed cell death to specify the vulva equivalence group and is not required during vulval induction

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3865-3873

  Sommer, Ralf J ^a   Eizinger, Andreas ^a   Lee, Kwang Zin ^a   Jungblut, Benno ^a   Bubeck, Anja ^a,b   Schlak, Lsabel ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caenorhabditis elegans; Homeotic genes; Ppa lin 39; Pristionchus pacificus; Vulva

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOBOX; MUTANT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VULVA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CASPASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEMATODA; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS; INVERTEBRATA; PRISTIONCHUS; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS;

EID: 0031737543     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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