The C. elegans gene lin-36 acts cell autonomously in the lin-35 Rb pathway

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3449-3459

  Thomas, Jeffrey H ^a   Horvitz, H Robert ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; lin 36; Redundancy; Signal transduction; Vulval development

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, RETINOBLASTOMA; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA;

EID: 0032878770     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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