unc-3, a gene required for axonal guidance in Caenorhabditis elegans, encodes a member of the O/E family of transcription factors

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1561-1568

  Prasad, Brinda C ^a   Ye, Bing ^a   Zackhary, Randa ^a   Schrader, Karen ^a   Seydoux, Geraldine ^a   Reed, Randall R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal pathfinding; Caenorhabditis elegans; Transcription; unc 3

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0031840035     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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