Caenorhabditis elegans lin-25: Cellular focus, protein expression and requirement for sur-2 during induction of vulval fates

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 4809-4819

  Nilsson, Lars ^a   Li, Xiajun ^b   Tiensuu, Teresa ^a   Auty, Roy ^a   Greenwald, Iva ^a,b   Tuck, Simon ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell signalling; let 60; lin 25; ras; sur 2; Vulva

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HERMAPHRODITISM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; VULVA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOTYPE; HEAT; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; HOMOZYGOTE; MOSAICISM; PROTEIN KINASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032414178     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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