The Polycomb group in Caenorhabditis elegans and maternal control of germline development

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2469-2478

  Korf, Ian ^a,b   Fan, Yuan ^a   Strome, Susan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; mes genes; Polycomb group

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031878315     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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