Structural requirements for the tissue-specific and tissue-general functions of the Caenorhabditis elegans epidermal growth factor LIN-3

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1257-1269

  Liu, Jing ^a,b   Tzou, Phoebe ^a   Hill, Russell J ^a,c   Sternberg, Paul W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EXONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENES, LETHAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032738247     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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