lagC-null and gbf-null cells define key steps in the morphogenesis of Dictyostelium mounds

Developmental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-26

  Sukumaran, Sujatha ^a   Brown, Jason M ^b   Firtel, Richard A ^b   McNally, James G ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Lab Receptor Biol Gene Expression   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHIMERA; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INNER CELL MASS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0032145731     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.8934     Document Type: Article

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