The antirrhinum ERG gene encodes a protein related to bacterial small GTPases and is required for embryonic viability

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 1079-1082

  Ingram, Gwyneth C ^a,b   Simon, Rüdiger ^a,c   Carpenter, Rosemary ^a   Coen, Enrico S ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETON; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ISOLATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MITOCHONDRION; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032563794     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(98)70445-2     Document Type: Article

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