Rapid epithelial-sheet sealing in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo requires cadherin-dependent filopodial priming

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 1139-1146

  Raich, William B ^a   Agbunag, Cristina ^b,c   Hardin, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0033592559     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)80015-9     Document Type: Article

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