Composition and dynamics of the Caenorhabditis elegans early embryonic transcriptome

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 889-900

  Baugh, L Ryan ^a   Hill, Andrew A ^b   Slonim, Donna K ^b   Brown, Eugene L ^b   Hunter, Craig P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Embryogenesis; Genomics; Microarray; Mid blastula transition; mRNA amplification; Time series; Zygotic transcription

Indexed keywords

BLASTULA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL FATE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; TIME; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0037350760     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00302     Document Type: Review

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