The C. elegans hand gene controls embryogenesis and early gonadogenesis

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 2881-2892

  Mathies, Laura D ^a   Henderson, Samuel T ^b   Kimble, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; ehn; Gonadogenesis; HAND; hnd 1; Organ primordium

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GERM LINE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; STEREOTYPY; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DEATH; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, HELMINTH; GONADS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038782510     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00483     Document Type: Article

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