The C. elegans par-4 gene encodes a putative serine-threonine kinase required for establishing embryonic asymmetry

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1467-1475

  Watts, Jennifer L ^a,b   Morton, Diane G ^a   Bestman, Jennifer ^a   Kemphuesf, Kenneth J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GONAD; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PEUTZ JEGHERS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 0034090975     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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