Pristionchus pacificus, a nematode with only three juvenile stages, displays major heterochronic changes relative to Caenorhabditis elegans

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1429, 1999, Pages 1617-1621

  Félix, Marie Anne ^a,b   Hill, Russell J ^c   Schwarz, Heinz ^d   Sternberg, Paul W ^a   Sudhaus, Walter ^e   Sommer, Ralf J ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^c USA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis; Heterochrony; Juvenile stages; Nematodes; Pristionchus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLAST CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GONAD; IMAGING; JUVENILE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MOLTING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIDEORECORDING; VULVA;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; PRISTIONCHUS; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS;

EID: 0033595332     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0823     Document Type: Article

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