Control of vulval competence and centering in the nematode Oscheius sp. 1 CEW1

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 133-146

  Louvet Vallée, Sophie ^a,c   Kolotuev, Irina ^b   Podbilewicz, Benjamin ^b   Félix, Marie Anne ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Université René Descartes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CELL FUSION; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; EPIDERMIS CELL; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LASER SURGERY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MUTATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; ORGANOGENESIS; OSCHEIUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYNCYTIUM; VULVA; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; VULVA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; OSCHEIUS; OSCHEIUS SP.;

EID: 0037274671     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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