The regulative capacity of prespore amoebae as demonstrated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and green fluorescent protein

Developmental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 173-178

  Nadin, Brian M ^a,b   Mah, Caroline S ^a   Scharff, James R ^a   Ratner, David I ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FACS; GFP; Prespore totipotency; Redifferentiation; Regulation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME MICRODISSECTION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FUNGI; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0033983340     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9530     Document Type: Article

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