Functions of the Caenorhabditis elegans regulatory myosin light chain genes mlc-1 and mlc-2

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1067-1077

  Rushforth, Alice M ^a,b   White, Claudia Cummins ^a   Anderson, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 1; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LETHAL MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTATION; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS;

EID: 0031793893     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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