Gastrulation initiation in Caenorhabditis elegans requires the function of gad-1, which encodes a protein with WD repeats

Developmental Biology

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 253-265

  Knight, Jennifer K ^a   Wood, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoderm; Spindle orientation; WD repeats

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN; TRANSDUCIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032525811     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.8894     Document Type: Article

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