Disruption of clh-1, a chloride channel gene, results in a wider body of Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 347-355

  Petalcorin, Mark I R ^a   Oka, Toshihiko ^a   Koga, Makoto ^b   Ogura, Ken Ichi ^b   Wada, Yoh ^a   Ohshima, Yasumi ^b   Futai, Masamitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Cell volume regulation; Chloride channel; Seam cells; Worm morphology

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE CHANNEL;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HYPODERRIS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0033607475     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3241     Document Type: Article

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