Patterning the C. elegans embryo moving beyond the cell lineage

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 307-313

  Labouesse, Michel ^a   Mango, Susan E ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GASTRULATION; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033180024     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(99)01750-3     Document Type: Note

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