Competence and commitment of Caenorhabditis elegans vulval precursor cells

Developmental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 12-24

  Wang, Minqin ^a   Sternberg, Paul W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Competence; EGF; Induction; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT SHOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VULVA;

EID: 0033179093     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9357     Document Type: Article

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