The divergent C. elegans ephrin EFN-4 functions in embryonic morphogenesis in a pathway independent of the VAB-1 Eph receptor

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 5499-5510

  Chin Sang, Ian D ^a,b   Moseley, Sarah L ^a   Ding, Mei ^a   Harrington, Robert J ^a   George, Sean E ^a   Chisholm, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C. elegans; EFN 4; Ephrin; Morphogenesis; Semaphorin; VAB 1

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN; EPHRIN EFN 4; EPHRIN RECEPTOR; LIGAND; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; SEMAPHORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; EPHRINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LARVA; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036920694     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00122     Document Type: Article

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