The Caenorhabditis elegans fate-determining gene mab-9 encodes a T-box protein required to pattern the posterior hindgut

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 596-603

  Woollard, Alison ^a,b   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachyury; C. elegans; Development; Hindgut; T box

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034161880     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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