daf-12 encodes a nuclear receptor that regulates the dauer diapause and developmental age in C. elegans

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1512-1527

  Antebi, Adam ^a,c   Yeh, Wen Hui ^b   Tait, Danilo ^a   Hedgecock, Edward M ^c   Riddle, Donald L ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Dauer formation; Diapause; Endocrine regulation; Heterochronic gene; Nuclear receptor

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH REGULATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIGAND BINDING; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; COSMIDS; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, STEROID; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034659485     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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