COG-2, a Sox domain protein necessary for establishing a functional vulval-uterine connection in Caenorhabditis elegans

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 169-179

  Hanna Rose, Wendy ^a   Han, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; cog 2; Morphogenesis; Sox; Vulva

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS; VULVA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UTERUS; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032935001     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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