The establishment of Caenorhabditis elegans germline pattern is controlled by overlapping proximal and distal somatic gonad signals

Developmental Biology

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 336-350

  Pepper, Anita S R ^a   Lo, Te Wen ^a   Killian, Darrell J ^a   Hall, David H ^b   Hubbard, E Jane Albert ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Germ line; GLP 1 Notch; Gonadogenesis; LAG 2; Meiosis; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN GLP 1; PROTEIN LAG 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0038303493     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(03)00203-3     Document Type: Article

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