MyoD and the specification of muscle and non-muscle fates during postembryonic development of the C. elegans mesoderm

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 2479-2488

  Harfe, Brian D ^a,b   Branda, Catherine S ^c   Krause, Michael ^d   Stern, Michael J ^c   Fire, Andrew ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Coelomocyte; hlh 1; lin 12; Muscle; MyoD; Vulval muscle

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MESODERM; MUSCLES; MYOD PROTEIN;

EID: 0031927040     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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