Regulation of body length and male tail ray pattern formation of Caenorhabditis elegans by a member of TGF-β family

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1337-1347

  Morita, Kiyokazu ^a   Chow, King L ^b   Ueno, Naoto ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body length; Caenorhabditis elegans; cet 1; sma pathway; TGF signaling

Indexed keywords

NERVE PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EPISTASIS; HETEROZYGOTE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; TAIL; VENTRAL ROOT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NERVE TISSUE; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAIL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032960725     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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