Dictyostelium development - Socializing through cAMP

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 567-576

  Meima, Marcel ^a   Schaap, Pauline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium discoideum l developmental gene expression spore germination adenylyl cyclase cAMP receptor protein kinase A

Indexed keywords

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

CYCLIC AMP;

ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CYCLIC AMP; DICTYOSTELIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033256499     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1999.0340     Document Type: Article

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